Stueyb

Hi peeps,

Its years since I touched unix in any great depth but I now need to create 2 scripts Im hoping someone can help me with or where I can find one

Script 1
Basic Backup script

All it needs to do, at the moment is make a copy of a folder in /usr/home and then tar it together, gzip it and then move it to a web accessable folder for download, renaming the file to backup090905.tar.gz if poss.

Script 2
Rubbish deletion script.

Now this folder has several hundred folders and subfolders containing images. Some of them have *.bak and thumbs.db in them and over several hundred folders it mounts up. Im looking for a script to create a file so I can review it and then if if its all ok, delete it.

Anyone know whats required/where I can get one from. I have googled for it !

Cheers

Stu

Vonzack

This info may not be 100%, I've been away from Unix for about 10 years, but if it doesn't work it'll be a starter for 10 for you ;-)

Script 1:

tar cf - 'find /usr/home' | gzip > <filename>

Script 2:

find <pathname> -name '*.bak' -exec rm {} \;
find <pathname> -name 'thumbs.db' -exec rm {} \;

Also this is a good link for command reference at www.linuxdevcenter.com/linux/cmd/

stevencotton

Solaris or some other non-GNU Unix? -z will compress with GNU tar:

$ tar cfz /path/to/shared/dir/backup`date +%y%m%d`.tar.gz /usr/home