I currently have this script that runs nightly via cron. I want to change it so it keeps every tar from the current week, the past month it keeps one from every sunday, then before that only keeps one from the 1st of every month. Any help is apreciated and thanks.

#!/bin/sh

DATESTAMP=`date +%m-%d-%Y-%H%M`

tar -czf /home/virtual/site/backup/homes/$DATESTAMP-homes.tar.gz /home/virtual/site/home

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Can't help you, but I have to say that was the coolest, most impressive bump I've ever seen. :D

Originally posted by Jtru
Can't help you, but I have to say that was the coolest, most impressive bump I've ever seen. :D
Thanks, I didn't make it but feel free to use it.

Originally posted by daveman
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WOOOOOOOOOWIEEE!!! :eek:

ignoring the fantastic bump replies off the top of my head you need 2 scripts

the one for the taring you have is fine


you'll need another one to nuke the tar's you don't need cron "nuke" to run after your archiving one that kills all the tar youdon't want.

haven't written one in a while but you will have to do some messing with `date` and rm the ones you find that don't match your criteria.

I'll have a think about it over the next few days and hopefully come up with a few suggestions

BTW : why do you want to nuke archives storage is now so cheap ?

Originally posted by hololi

I'll have a think about it over the next few days and hopefully come up with a few suggestions

BTW : why do you want to nuke archives storage is now so cheap ?
Thanks! :D

The reason is that the next part of my script will ftp the tars offsite each time. Thus on the server I only need some of the backups and not all.