Cron job for backup

[Patrick Fleming, EA]

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BACKUPDIRNAME=`date +Y%m%d%` #these are backtics -

mkdir /media/usbthingy/${BACKUPDIRNAME}

cp -av /blah /media/usbthingy/${BACKUPDIRNAME}


gm5729 wrote:
> I am looking at trying to set up a cron job to do automatic backups of
> my /home directory. I want to do a full backup each time with no
> incremental backups. However I would like to use a date format for the
> main folder so it is easy to tell by looking at the usb hdd when it
> backed up last.
> 
> How do I generate an auto-date to the end of a folder...
> 
> cp -av /blah /media/usbthingy/newfolderDATE
> 
> I would like the date to be yyyymmdd format.
> 
> Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated. It would be great to
> just flip the switch to the usb hdd and forget about it. Let the
> computer do the work instead of futzing around with manual backups.
> 
> VampirePenguin
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