Re: a TAR question

[Tom Conder <blitz@gazpacho.net>]

You could try use the date command to give you numbers representing the 
year, the day of the year and the hour/min/sec. For example to backup a 
directory named 'pictures':

    tar cvf pictures-`date +%g%j-%H%M%S`.tar pictures

would produce a file named something like:

    pictures-05006-220130.tar

where the year is 2005 and the date is Jan 6 and the time is 10:01:30

bentley_rhodes wrote:

>    nontechnical really ... i know how to work TAR, but for one thing.  
> i was wanting to make numbered backups and /somewhere/ i found an 
> options backup (called t) that makes the backups numbered.  but when i 
> tried putting it in, it wouldn't work.    now sometime ago i purchased 
> a license for RAR (http://www.rarlab.com) and i have tried using it in 
> linux.  it won't backup everything, because ... if i remember 
> correctly, it causes errors on some reads.  i don't know if i was or 
> was not root at that point, but that is *not* my question.  i can 
> experiment with that.  i'm just wondering does anyone know about the 
> TAR question?
>
>

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Tom Conder                                       http://www.gazpacho.net/
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