Re: [Evolution] Creating a backup script

[Ron Johnson <ron l johnson cox net>]

On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 02:49 -0400, Andrew Conkling wrote:
> I've made a backup script to be executed in my crontab, but it's a bit
> dirty and I'd appreciate it if anyone could help me clean it up a bit.
> I've added comments to indicate what I'd like to do with it (i.e. where
> my scripting skills are inadequate):
>
> #!/bin/bash
> evolution-1.5 --force-shutdown 

Hey, that's clever.  I wonder if it will cause all instances of Evo
to die, if run by root?

> export TIME=`clock` # This spits out a lot of time info; I'd like to
> make this a bit terser

$ x=`date +%y%m%d.%H%M` # great for timestamping files

$ echo $x
040420.0204

$ stime=`date +"%F %R"`  # nice and human readable

$ echo $stime
2004-04-20 02:04


> tar
> -cfz /home/andrew/.evolution_files_$TIME.tar.gz /home/andrew/.evolution/*

Try this instead:
cd ~andrew
$ x=`date +%y%m%d.%H%M` # great for timestamping files
tar cfj evolution_files_${x}.tar.bz2 \
 --recursion \
 --exclude=.evolution/cache/http \
 --exclude=.evolution/imap \
 .evolution

-- 
Ron Johnson <ron l johnson cox net>