On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 13:25 +0700, Fajar Priyanto wrote: > Hi all, > I want to automate backup process into crontab. > What I usually manually do is: > tar zcvf filename-date.tar.gz /somedirectory > > Can anyone help me with the script needed that can include the date in the > filename? What format would you like the date to be in? Give an example. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>