tarsnap

backup

• ratnaps

  #!/bin/sh
  
  # Set up archive name
  computer=$(uname -n)
  now=$(date +%Y%m%d)
  name=${computer}-${now}
  #dirs="$@"
  
  # Create an archive
  /usr/bin/tarsnap -c \
      -f "${name}" \
      /etc /home /var /...
      #"${dirs}"

• add to cron

list

tarsnap --list-archives | sort

extract

• extracts full path so genrally start from /

  tarsnap -x -f <archive_name>