How to backup to a tarball
 

Hi,

What is the best command line to backup all files in all sub directories after a certain date? Tar? gzip?



Cheers

tar will allow to gzip as you go, and it knows
about a
too...


Cheers,
Tink

Thanks for the fast response.. so the command is

tar -N 2004-03-22 -czvf archive.tgz *

Cant seem to make that work.

After seraching around I could only find this command:

tar -zcvf archive.tgz `find . -newer temp.txt -type f -print` // all files after date of temp.txt

It works for me, try to play with the date's
format... try american ;)

tar -N 15/08/2004 -cvzf backup.tar.gz *


Cheers,
Tink

Hi,

Here's what I get:

[root@kirk ]# ll
total 12
-rwxr--r-- 1 apache apache 1374 Jun 14 21:13 side.sql
-rwxr--r-- 1 apache apache 1151 May 21 08:21 test1.txt
-rwxr--r-- 1 apache apache 50 May 12 16:21 test2.txt
[root@kirk]# tar -N 22/05/2004 -cvzf backup.tar.gz *
tar: side.sql: file is unchanged; not dumped
tar: test1.txt: file is unchanged; not dumped
tar: test2.txt: file is unchanged; not dumped


It produces a file with nothing in it!!

Should produce a file with side.sql only

If I try
tar -N 05/22/2004 -cvzf backup.tar.gz *
side.sql
test1.txt
test2.txt

It backs up everything