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Does anybody know how to archive files before a certain date with tar.
I know there is this function --newer.
Thank you very much guys in advance.

Koda0505

You can generate the filelist with find and use it's output for tar.
man find

e.g. the command

find /dir/to/backup -ctime -1 -type f

gives all the files which were last changed 1 days and before (the minus sign). so, if you want to tar these files simply extend this with tar:

tar czvf backup.tar.gz `find /dir/to/backup -ctime -1 -type f`

and so on. This is the unix philosophy. Small programs do what they need to do and you can pipe them together :-)

I hope it will solve your problem.

You could also write a shell script.

Thanks bbk, I'll try that.

Koda0505