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Not sure if this is in the right place, but i'll go ahead....
I run a Red Hat Linux server from home and want to be able to keep weekly backups. I have an extra hard disk used for backups...
I know the command that I need to use to backup the system, the problem is I want to be able to set this up in a cron job so that it is automatically done every week. The other problem I have is that I want the filename of the backup to have the date in...
My conclusion is that I need to write a small bash script that gets the date and then runs the command to backup the system. For reference, the command I was going to use is:
sh -c RSH="/usr/bin/ssh" dump -0 -f '/backup/backup-DD-MM-YY' -u -j9 '/'
I need to get the bash script to run that command except change the DD-MM-YY to the relevant date.
I'm clueless about bash scripts so I haven't a clue.
Unfortunately I setup the cronjob to run the bash script and I instantly got an email from the Cron Daemon saying that it had failed. So instead I put the entire command "date +%e-%m-%y|xargs -ireplacethis dump -0 -f '/backup/backup-replacethis' -u -j9 '/'" as the command Cron must run.
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