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[meep-online]

Hello,
If you are running a cronjob in cpanel to backup your site, like so:

Code:

zip -r backup public_html

then how would you get it to back it up to like backup-(timestamp).zip, where (timestamp) is the current timestamp?
I'm no good with unix commands

Cameron

[Diemux]

This is not for a 110MB website right?

[meep-online]

No, its for a mates website

[inp o҉rtb]

Hello,
If you are running a cronjob in cpanel to backup your site, like so:

Code:

zip -r backup public_html

then how would you get it to back it up to like backup-(timestamp).zip, where (timestamp) is the current timestamp?
I'm no good with unix commands

If your shell is POSIX-compliant (like Bash), try:

zip -r backup-`date +%s`.zip public_html

[meep-online]

Ok thanks. I'll try that and see if it works

[meep-online]

Hey I have tried doing

Code:

zip -r backups/backup`date +%y%m%d%H%M%S`.zip public_html

and it doesn't work. It gives the error:

Code:

/bin/sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching ``'
/bin/sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file

[inp o҉rtb]

I guess not, then. What about writing a PHP job to rename the backup file?