Hello,

we have script that copy weekly backup from server to backup server every week but sometimes it copy old backup.
So does anyone have idea how to check creation date of directory /backup/weekly/*/accounts and compare to current date (date that script start to copy to remote server) and send email if directory is created and backup is copy or send email that backup isn't created.
Also how to check if backup is created because sometimes cPanel create only directories not files like tar.gz or additional user directory if incremental backup is configured on server.
So it's like:
-check creation date of directory and if have content and make sure that directory isn't 10 days old and send email.
-than copy backup to backup server

Kind regards.

oh yes, many ideas.
if i was you i'd write a shell script utilizing the find command with it's various time related switches.
also sending email via command line isn't exactly rocket science.
so, search the web, look at what others made, then write your script.

you will get help here, but not before you show some effort.

and let's say it again, this isn't exactly rocket science and if you're responsible for server backups this shouldn't be hard for you at all.

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Please post (in code tags https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...do=bbcode#code ) your current script.

Hello,

here is what I try to make to get creation date od directory and compare current and creation date...
also I have issue with getting format of date of creation so i can compare it tu current date... here is code:
as you can see I try to get creation time from directory and subtract from current date and compare with number of days in seconds.
can someone plesae help me to get format of date that I can compare with current (current_date - creation_date=number and is number <> than 10).

best regards.

The date (in seconds since epoch) of the backup file (not directory) is
compare that to the current date/time Please read man date...man pages are your friend

Yes, -r gives the modified date of the file rather than the create date...but that's what you want. you don't need to know when the file was created...you need to know when it was last touched.
[A large backup could have several minutes between create date and modified date...]

Hello,

in this case I want to know when folder is created in "/backup/weekly/*/accounts" witch is cpanel backup. After I get crtime I need to put it in variable and compare as you see in if statement with current date when script starts to execute.

Kind regards.

Have a look at http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ar-4175429139/
for possible alternate coding snippets.

Suggestion:
rsync all of
"/backup/weekly/*/accounts" ?

Then you could be fairly certain you got the right one?

sudo in your script. Running script as root?

In your script, crtime already is a variable containing the date you want, yes?
What happens if you put $crtime where you now have crtime_variable ?

Also 86400 seconds is only one day. Is that what you want?