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You have to grow up, but you can be immature your whole life

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  michael schuh

  February 25th, 2009 at 6:14 am

  Hi,

  using tar -cvzpSf -`date “+%Y-%m-%d”`.tgz or
  tar -cvzpSf -`date “+%Y-%m-%d-%H:$M”`.tgz
  ( change colon to dash or underline if you need )
  for backups uses every time the right date ( now ) and orders files per date newest last ( automagically ) and uses ISO-Norm for date-string…..
  another hint: tar can also made incremental backups….
  for disk-backups it’s better to use dump ( refer to zwicky – torture testing backup… )

  cheers
  michael