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shell script to backup files and directories in Linux using tar & cron jobs

February 1, 2014May 4, 2016 eduguru 1 Comment #!/bin/bash #AutoBackup of Important Data TIME=`date +"%b-%d-%y"` # This Command will add date in Backup File Name. FILENAME="backup-$TIME.tar.gz" # Here i define Backup file name format. SRCDIR="/imp, 6 /bin/bash /backup.sh Now Done....., backup files and directory, Backup Using TAR Backing up your files using tar is very simple you just type a little command. tar -cvpzf /BackupDirectory/backupfilename.tar.gz /ImportantData/directory/path Let’s suppose i have dir, linux backup file, schedule cron job, shell script to backup, shell script to backup files and directories in Linux using tar & cron jobs, this command basically says we are going to edit our cron jobs file. If you run first time crontab -e command then it will ask you to default text editor, you just select your favorite editor after that it will never ask you again. crontab -e Format of Crontab. It has 6 Parts: Minutes Hours Day of Month Month Day of Week Command 0 to 59 0 to 23 1 to 31

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