{"id":76,"date":"2008-03-11T07:41:27","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T14:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/?p=76"},"modified":"2009-08-11T07:42:02","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T14:42:02","slug":"backing-up-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/?p=76","title":{"rendered":"Backing up files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following script takes a file and appends the current date to it.  This is a very useful script for backing up files regularly using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adminschoice.com\/docs\/crontab.htm\">crontab<\/a>.  I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m posting it here because it is both very useful and much harder to find online than one would think.<\/p>\n<p><code><br \/>\n#!\/usr\/local\/bin\/bash<br \/>\nTIMESTAMP=$(date +%Y%m%d)<br \/>\nmv \/home\/bob\/bob.dat \/home\/bob\/bob-$TIMESTAMP.dat<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following script takes a file and appends the current date to it. This is a very useful script for backing up files regularly using crontab. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m posting it here because it is both very useful and much harder to find online than one would think. #!\/usr\/local\/bin\/bash TIMESTAMP=$(date +%Y%m%d) mv \/home\/bob\/bob.dat \/home\/bob\/bob-$TIMESTAMP.dat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-application-debug"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2u4LH-1e","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"https:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kamivaniea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}