[LBo] Re: Daily Mail backup [was: Moving Home] (Anita Lewis)

[cdl at rc5.us]

Anita Lewis wrote:
> -------ajdailybu---------
> export FN=3D`date +%Y-%m-%d-%a-%Hh%M.tgz`
> 
> time tar czvf /home/ajlewis2/tempbu/ajdaily$FN -T /home/ajlewis2/bin/
> dailytar &> /home/ajlewis2/Desktop/ajbackup-log.txt

Very nice.  Your login shell is a csh variant, isn't it?

A tip for readers with a sh/bash/ksh login shell: the redirection
syntax will need to be adjusted to something like this:

time tar czvf ... > $HOME/Desktop/ajbackup-log.txt 2>&1

If you want to see the output as well as save it, something like this
ought to work:

time tar czvf ... 2>&1 | tee $HOME/Desktop/ajbackup-log.txt 

When the above is run by cron, it'll send you email with the result.

cheers,
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