archive with daily/weekly/monthly rotation

bin/dailyArchive

# Daily archive script.  There will be scripts for weekly and monthly too.
# Get the day name

today=`date +%A`

# Create todays snapshot archive.
for i in tex py ipynb DAT geo; do
   # create, verbose, bzip2, filename follows:
   find /home/me -name '*.$i' | tar cjvf /mnt/arc/$today$i.tar.bz2 --files-from - > /mnt/arc/$today.log;
   done


bin/weeklyArchive:
# Get the week number

today=`date +%A`
weekNumber=`date +%V`

# Tar todays snapshot archives into an archive
# called this week number.  Call this after the
# weekly archive has completed.

tar xvf /mnt/arc/$weeknumber.tar /mnt/arc/$today* > /mnt/arc/week$weekNumber$today.log


bin/monthlyArchive:
# Monthly archive script.  There will be scripts for daily and weekly too.
# Get the week number

today=`date +%A`
weekNumber=`date +%V`
monthName=`date +%B`

# Tar todays snapshot archives into an archive
# called this month name.  Call this after the
# weekly archive has completed.

tar xvf /mnt/arc/$monthName.tar /mnt/arc/$today* > /mnt/arc/$monthName.log





Do, $ crontab -e and update to,




# minute hour dateOfMonth Month dayOfWeek command
# Every night, at 01:01, run the archiver:
01 01 * * * /home/me/bin/dailyArchive
# Every Saturday at 17:01, run the weekly archiver.
01 17 * * 6 /home/me/bin/weeklyArchive
# Every 1st day of the month, at 07:01, run the monthly archiver.
01 07 01 * * /home/me/bin/monthlyArchive