Python tarball script

Hello please help

I just started learning python, and been trying to research on how to fix the problem, but have had no luck .

My goal is to make the file name of the tar file with the current date. I'm either getting invalid syntax : or no support of ("path/%s.tar") % now

Any clues, or am I way off.

#!/usr/bin/python

import os
import datetime
import tarfile


now = datetime.datetime.now()


os.chdir("/home")
tar = tarfile.open("/run/media/user/backup/backup1.tar", "w:tar") # I want to name the .tar file with the current date
tar.add("/home")
tar.add("/etc")
tar.close()

Not sure what problems you're facing as you haven't provided your faulty code and traceback which it gives you. This should work:

import tar
from datetime import date

today = date.today().strftime('%Y%m%d')

tar = tarfile.open('/path/to/backup-%s.tar' % today, 'w:tar')
tar.add('/foobar')
tar.close()

Consult strftime() docs to learn about the formats it supports.

doh' I fail... my brain was shutting down when I posted that. I will try this code . Thanks, from what I see i was putting the %s and the % date in the wrong place.

Yeah!!! it worked thank you so much!