Hello. Thank you very much. Its an excellent video. Can you please show us how to keep having always 7 backups only? I mean the a way to automatically delete the 1rst backup before write the 8th backup. Again thank you!
I just found this message! I'm sorry about the delay. To automatically rotate backups, or any repetitive file, use logrotate. Type man logrotate and/or man logrotate.conf. This utility is built-in to Linux and provides outstanding file rotation options. You can even scp or rsync your files to a remote host within a script within the logrotate configuration file.
Hello! Be sure that you are 1) defining the variable in your script and 2) using the "back-tick/grave mark" not the "single quote" when addressing an executable function. The grave-mark is the same key as ~ , while pressing SHIFT A quick scripting rule: ' = do not interpret variables between the ' and ' " = interpret variables between " and " ` = run whatever is between ` and ` as a command Example: echo '$SHELL' echo "$SHELL" echo `$SHELL` (you'll need to exit this one after you run it, as it opens a new shell) (It looks like the problem is that your script is using a single-quotes instead of grave-marks.) I hope that this helps!
Excellent explanation! Thanks a lot!
very well explained! i was stuck with my uni homework in daily backup but really helpful video. Thank you so much for this video.
I'm so glad that this helped!
This was a very easy to follow and helpful tutorial. Thank you.
thnaks you sir its very amazing session
Thank you so much for this video. The republic of china will forever be in your favour.
I appreciate that. I'm always happy to gain support.
Hello. Thank you very much. Its an excellent video. Can you please show us how to keep having always 7 backups only? I mean the a way to automatically delete the 1rst backup before write the 8th backup. Again thank you!
I just found this message! I'm sorry about the delay. To automatically rotate backups, or any repetitive file, use logrotate. Type man logrotate and/or man logrotate.conf. This utility is built-in to Linux and provides outstanding file rotation options. You can even scp or rsync your files to a remote host within a script within the logrotate configuration file.
Hello Sir thanks for this great video. Can you please make a video on rsync for linux backup on remote storage
Thank you for your kind note. Absolutely, I'll be glad to create a quick demo of rsync.
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Thank you!
I am getting error
tar: +%Y%m%d.%H%M.tar.gz: cannot stat: no such file or directory
please help whats the issue
Hello! Be sure that you are 1) defining the variable in your script and 2) using the "back-tick/grave mark" not the "single quote" when addressing an executable function. The grave-mark is the same key as ~ , while pressing SHIFT
A quick scripting rule:
' = do not interpret variables between the ' and '
" = interpret variables between " and "
` = run whatever is between ` and ` as a command
Example:
echo '$SHELL'
echo "$SHELL"
echo `$SHELL` (you'll need to exit this one after you run it, as it opens a new shell)
(It looks like the problem is that your script is using a single-quotes instead of grave-marks.)
I hope that this helps!