Comments on: Create a TAR file Linux http://www.danieltmurphy.com/create-a-tar-file-linux/ You have to grow up, but you can be immature your whole life Sat, 24 Dec 2011 18:11:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: michael schuh http://www.danieltmurphy.com/create-a-tar-file-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-157 michael schuh Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:14:54 +0000 http://danieltmurphy.com//?p=877#comment-157 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 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

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