Re: [webmin-l] [1.300] Backup of file systems

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

On 21/Nov/2006 15:35 Joaquim Homrighausen wrote ..
> 
> Performing backup of /sites/mydomain.com to /back/%Y-%m-%d/mydomain.com
> ..
> 
> tar: /back/2006-11-22/mydomain.com: Cannot open: No such file or directory
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
> 
> It would be nice if Webmin could check the path/destination before it starts
> the backup and create any necessary directories. I'd like to have a structure
> that looks like:
> 
> /back/2006-11-22/files..
> /back/2006-11-23/files..
> 
> and so on, so I don't get *everything* in one directory, or manually have
> to create the structure.

You can use the pre-backup command for this - something like :

mkdir -p /backup/`date '+%Y-%m-%d'`

 - Jamie