Commands tagged backup, find, tar.gz (3)

  • Create incremental snapshots of individual folders using find and tar-gzip

    Creates an incremental snapshot of individual folders.


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    find /mnt/storage/profiles/ -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d | while read d; do tarfile=`echo "$d" | cut -d "/" -f5`; destdir="/local/backupdir/"; tar -g "$destdir"/"$tarfile".snar -czf "$destdir"/"$tarfile"_`date +%F`.tgz -P $d; done
    jaimerosario · 2013-12-05 19:20:31 13
  • Create full backups of individual folders using find and tar-gzip

    Problem: I wanted to backup user data individually. In this example, all user data is located in "/mnt/storage/profiles", and about 25 folders inside, each with a username ( /mnt/storage/profiles/mike; /mnt/storage/profiles/lucy ...) I need each individual folder backed up, not the whole "/mnt/storage/profiles". So, using find while excluding directories depth and creating two variables (tarfile=username & desdir=destination), tar will create a .tgz file for each folder, resulting in a "mike_full.tgz" and "lucy_full.tgz".


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    find /mnt/storage/profiles/ -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d | while read d; do tarfile=`echo "$d" | cut -d "/" -f5`; destdir="/local/backupdir/"; tar -czf $destdir/"$tarfile"_full.tgz -P $d; done
    jaimerosario · 2013-12-05 19:07:17 6
  • Create incremental backups of individual folders using find and tar-gzip

    Problem: I wanted to backup user data individually, using and incremental method. In this example, all user data is located in "/mnt/storage/profiles", and about 25 folders inside, each with a username ( /mnt/storage/profiles/mike; /mnt/storage/profiles/lucy ...) I need each individual folder backed up, not the whole "/mnt/storage/profiles". So, using find while excluding directories depth and creating two variables (tarfile=username & desdir=destination), tar will create a .tgz file for each folder, resulting in a "mike_2013-12-05.tgz" and "lucy_2013-12-05.tgz".


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    find /mnt/storage/profiles/ -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d | while read d; do tarfile=`echo "$d" | cut -d "/" -f5`; destdir="/local/backupdir"; tar -czvf "$destdir"/"$tarfile"_`date +%F`.tgz -P $d; done
    jaimerosario · 2013-12-05 19:18:03 8

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