hi ,

i want to take the back up of my directory .

it should be automatically done!!

say i have folder in /home/nagesh/data

this data should be automatically stored in another file-system for every 5 min it has to check and that data shld be in file=system

plz help me

give the shell script for that since i am new to this.

thanking you,
Nagesh

have a look at man cp (look for -r option) for the copy
have a look at man crontab for the automatic stuff

Good Day

First of all do want this backup to be "live"?, that is as the files change in Directory 1, it must change in Directory 2?if so do as follows
Well of course you need to write a script eg: backup.sh, place this in it

#!/bin/bash
#
# Script to backup files using Rsync

## The following syncs files between two directories, as you can see change the ##file paths

rsync -azrpog --delete /files/to/backup /destination/of/backup

## End of Script

Close your text editor and make sure the file is executable by doing the following

$ chmod 755 backup.sh

Then add to the Crontab so it can do the rsync as follows, the crontab is like M$ Windoze schedular

Type the following

$ crontab -e

add the folowing entry to the crontab

05 * * * * /the/path/to/your/script > /dev/null 2>&1

Close your editor and the crontab will be saved
the script should run every 5 minutes

Cheers

thank u very much,

but i want the tar file to be in the backup directory and also whn i am running backup.sh only it is storing in the backup other wise there is no backup ..

then what is the need of crontab??

please help me

Good Day

I am not sure I understand what you are saying, the crontab is the same as the Windows Task Scheduler, that is it enables you to run certain tasks repeatedly at a certain time.

to understand this command type the following

$ man crontab

From what you are saying you now what the backup files tarred/zipped etc...?? Go and have a look at the following links

www.linux-backup.net or go to the following PDF file which will explain

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux-Complete...ecovery-HOWTO/

This will give you a complete guide of doing a linux backup.

Cheers

thks very much for giving fast replies

i am now able to work with cronjobs but

tar -czf /cytrion-station8/workspace/Archive/`date +%d-%m-%Y `/data.tar.gz /cytrion-station8/workspace/Active/`date +%d-%m-%Y `

by the above i am creating tar file called data.tar.gz

when i am extracting this tar file i have /cytrion-station8/workspace/Active/03-10-2006/....

i dont want all these things i want just from 03-10-2006....

but all these /cytrion.......

unnecessary stuff is coming..

please help

do you mean

mkdir /cytrion-station8/workspace/Archive/`date +%d-%m-%Y `



tar cvjf /cytrion-station8/workspace/Archive/`date +%d-%m-%Y `/data.tar.bz2



when i am extracting data.tar.bz2 ....then i have to see from the date folder but i am seeing from cytrion-station8 folder


please help me