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Automate backups on Linux

Jul 18, 2008, 08:00 (1 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Carlos Justiniano)

[ Thanks to jmalasko for this link. ]

"The arc script accepts a single file or directory name as a parameter and creates a compressed archive file with the current date embedded into the resulting archive file's name. For example, if you have a directory called beoserver, you can invoke the arc script, passing it the beoserver directory name to create a compressed archive such as: beoserver.20040321-014844.tgz"

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