Moving a last dated backup to remote location.

danykallery · 03-25-2013, 01:03 AM

Hi,

I am taking a backup of one HDD Drive which contatins all the databackup on daily basis. i want to take once in a week the latest backup to the remote location. but i tried many scripts none of them working. can some one help me to done this.

for example. i have 1,2,3,4,5 dates backup. on a perticular day i have to take the latest backup file to remote desktop. here on 5th day backup i have to take.

waiting for ur responds...

Thanks in advance

TenTenths · 03-25-2013, 05:07 AM

Use ls -t and take the first result, roughly:

Code:

cd /backups
LATEST=`ls -t backup*.tgz | head -n 1`
scp ${LATEST} myname@remotehost:/backups