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backup script multiple gzips into one bzip2 or gzip

OK I have a backup script basically is this

Code:

BACKUP_DIRS="/etc /boot /root /home"

BACKUP_FOLDER="/tmp/system_backup/



for DIR in ${BACKUP_DIRS}

do



# so instead of /var/www as a file name we get var.www.tar

TARBALL_FILE_NAME=`echo ${DIR} | sed 's/.\(.*\)/\1/' | sed -e 's///./g'`



  tar -czpmf ${BACKUP_FOLDER}/${TARBALL_FILE_NAME}.tar ${DIR}

  sleep 1



done

All the folders get dumped into seperate gzip files.
Now I want all the gzip files in the backup folder into one final gzip or bzip2 file. My goal for this is to get one file instead of multiple so I can scp or ftp the one file to another file share. Which would be easier to send one file than a bunch of files.

Thanks

How about:

Code:

BACKUP_DIRS="/etc /boot /root /home"

BACKUP_FOLDER="/tmp/system_backup/

NOW=$(date +%F-%s)



tar -czpmf ${BACKUP_FOLDER}/backup_${NOW}.tar.gz ${BACKUP_DIRS}

..?

Thanks man that did the trick.