[ale] tar and date

[Yu, Jerry]

you may want to put the resultant YYYY-MM-DD.tar.gz at a location other than your target backup directory, 
or exclude it from your 'tar' command.

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# 
# Preston Boyington wrote:
# > I want to have a shell script (that will run via a cron 
# job) to tar.gz three directories and append the date to the 
# single file (today.tar.gz).  Then I will rsync with another drive.
# > 
# > I think I need to do something like:
# > 
# > ------------------------
# > #!/bin/bash
# > 
# > /bin/tar -zcpf /usr/local/share/data/`date 
# +%Y-%m-%d`.tar.gz /usr/local/share/data/
# > 
# > rsync -CPaur /usr/local/share/data/ /backup/data/
# > -------------------------
# > 
# > Does this look remotely correct to anyone?  Anything I am 
# forgetting?
# 
# Looks fine to me.
# 
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