Scripting for backups

[WonderG914]

I need to write a small script to tar some files. I have never written one line of code in a linux environment. Where do I start? Is there a book or a place on the web where I can go to learn the basics?

[Hayl]

http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/Programming

[WonderG914]

I assume I should use bash shell scripting. Thanks for the help. I thought I had looked throught the library.

[WonderG914]

Please tell me what I'm doing wrong.

#!/bin/bash

#Set variables for time date stamp
VAR_MONTH=`date +%m`
VAR_DAY=`date +%d`
VAR_YEAR=`date +%y`
VAR_HOUR=`date +%H`
VAR_MIN=`date +%M`

#test output
echo "daily_backup-$VAR_MONTH-$VAR_DAY-$VAR_YEAR.tar.gz"


#Make a backup
#tar -cvzf /backups/daily_backup_$VAR_MONTH-$VAR_DAY-$VAR_YEAR.tar.gz /mnt/samba/folder


I want the output to look like:
daily_backup-9-30-03.tar.gz

But it ends up looking like this:
-03ly_backup-09

[goon12]

I just cut and pastes, and ran your script...


[me@domain a_folder]$ sh foo.sh
daily_backup-09-30-03.tar.gz
[me@domain a_folder]$


Seems to work ok from here..

-goon12

[superted]

worked here also

[WonderG914]

Thanks foir helping, but I still cannot to get it to print correctly.