On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 04:36:51PM -0500, Phillip.J.Crump at WellsFargo.COM wrote: > Currently I have about 10 MB (uncompressed) or so of data I need backed up.. > I don't need it to be 'happy/clicky' just reliable, I was thinking of > something that could pick up the files or directories that I specify, tar > them up and then copy to the zip drive as 1 tar'd file until the drive is > full.. Well in that case, I'd just call a script like the one below nightly from cron (see man crontab). #!/bin/sh -x zip_path='/path/to/zip/disk' date=`date +%Y%m%d` #name the backup file in the form 'backup_20010906.tar' and puts #it on the zip disk backup_file=$zip_path'/backup_'$date'.tar' #Put your list of files or directories into this file file_list_file='YOUR_FILE_HERE' tar cvf $backup_file --files-from $file_list_file -- Jim Crumley | Free Dmitry Sklyarov! crumley at fields.space.umn.edu | http://freesklyarov.org/ Work: 612 624-6804 or -0378 |