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veerkumar · #1 (**permalink**) 07-04-2005, 03:21 PM

Hi!
I want to write a shell script which will take the backup of individual user home dirs existing in /home partition. I am using the following script but it is continuing to be in loop and it is taking all the backup in a single tar file.

#!/bin/sh
# thsi script is used to take the backup of individual folders
# this script is userd to take the complete backup of the /home users and /apps user
# AUTHOR : - Veer Kumar
clear
cd /home/
for files in *
do
set $files
OF=/data/home/`hostname`_$1_bkp_$(date +%d%m%Y).tar.gz
#echo $OF
tar -czvf $OF *
done # exiting for loop
unset $files # un setting set variables
exit 0 # exititng shell script

can any one help me to take the backup of all users in /home partition.

Thanks,

Veer Kumar.

nixcraft · #2 (**permalink**) 07-05-2005, 12:52 AM

Change line

Code:

tar -czvf $OF *

To

Code:

tar -czvf $OF $files

And it should work for you

permalink · #3 (**permalink**) 07-06-2005, 05:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nixcraft

Change line

Code:

tar -czvf $OF *

To

Code:

tar -czvf $OF $files

And it should work for you

The suggestion worked very fine. Thanks very much.

Veer kumar.

marinm · #4 (**permalink**) 07-12-2005, 06:33 AM

We all appreciate Vivek's and monk's knowledge about shell scripting/Linux, right?

A big THANKS to Vivek and monk!

Keep up this great work!

Sukarso · #5 (**permalink**) 01-15-2008, 08:37 AM

Hi, all.

If I need to delete any files in target directory...please give me suggestion.

Thanks.

/sukarso

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