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REWARD: Simple home directory backup script

Can someone please help me to create a compressed file for three home directories ?

I know how to use tar and gzip but can't zip up three home directories in a script.

If I could run it in Cron and then download the file every day manually that would be great.

Thank you, I will give 100 of my points.

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poppy

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You can even make three file, but if you want only one file:

tar czf /pathwhereyouwant/backupfile.tgz /home/homedir1 /home/homedir2 /home/homedir3

After creation where you want to upload this file?

Response by:

leoncino

1280 points

You can type this

cd /home

tar cvf home-backup-date user[1-100]

or

find /home |cpio -i >/hdd/home-backup-date

Response by:

mohamad_kian

1548 points

Tar cvJf FULL_PATH_OF_BACKUP.bz2 home1 home2 home3

c=create

v=verbose

J=bzip2

f=file

target will be on FULL_PATH_OF_BACKUP.bz2

Response by:

jalal

3623 points

Ahh, I didn't know you could do that with tar.

I can actually put that in a script now - thank you. Points to you.