help required in logging tar command output

drumil narayan drumilnarayan at yahoo.com
Wed Mar 7 14:03:46 UTC 2007


Thanks Rick,

it works fine..
if I wnat to combine into one comamnd then what
changes I should make!

Thanks!
Drumil

--- Rick Stevens <rstevens at vitalstream.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 12:53 +0000, drumil narayan
> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > am trying to backup some directories using tar and
> > furhter have to prepare the log file of it.
> > 
> > this is going to be job which will run as
> background
> > process
> > 
> > am trying this
> > 
> > tar -cvf Disk1.tar /home/Oracle/Disk1/* >
> Disk1.log
> > &nohup
> > gzip Disk1.tar
> > 
> > its not preparing gzip Disk1.tar
> > can sombody correct me please
> 
> It's easier if you create a script,
> /usr/local/bin/backup:
> 
> 	#!/bin/bash
> 	cd /some/working/directory
> 	tar cvf Disk1.tar /home/Oracle/Disk1/* >Disk1.log
> 2>&1
> 	gzip Disk1.tar
> 
> Then "chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/backup".  Run that
> script via:
> 
> 	# nohup /usr/local/bin/backup &
> 
> That way you can even crontab it should you wish.
> 
> > 
> > thanks..drumil
> > 
> > 
> > 		
> >
>
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