On Tuesday 29 June 2004 02:06 pm, slim wrote: > On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 12:50, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: > > On Tuesday 29 June 2004 02:38 am, slim wrote: <snip> > > > what Id like to do, is make a script that will gather certain dir. and > > > files for back up, split some tar.gz files at 9.8 meg each and email > > > them to my gmail account. <sni> > > I'd do it in PHP, since I know it better than shell (or bash), and just > > do system() or exex() for calling tar, gzip and split. Efficiency should > > not be a problem with PHP running in command line mode. > > > > Yep I was looking at some ways in php to do this. but I cant get by > the fact that I'll more than likely need two scripts. > > one to do the backup, zip and split and one to retrieve the files and > send via e-mail... I fail to understand why you need two scripts. If you use exec() or system() in PHP, the script won't continue until it returns. RDB -- Reuben D. Budiardja Department of Physics and Astronomy The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
