Re: [webmin-l] virtualmin server backup... can this be done?

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 16:39, Neil Davey wrote:
> Hi,
> I use the virtualmin scheduled backup to regularly backup my users 
> server incase something goes wrong.
> I do a file per server backup into a directory elsewhere on the server. 
> One feature I'd like to have is the ability to have a date and time 
> included into the filename of each backup, so I can have rolling 
> backups. I don't think virtualmin needs to handle how many backup you 
> have or anything fance like that (although other may disagree)..
> 
> Is it easy enough to modify the backup script to do this? I'm thinking a 
> format like  servername-2005-06-28_1638.tar.gz

This is actually possible.. You can check the box 'Do strftime style
time substitutions on file or directory name' , and then using codes
like %d, %M and %Y in the backup filename. To see a full list of
date/time codes available, run the command :

man strftime

 - Jamie