Re: how to name an archive

[Graham Percival <gperciva@tarsnap.com>]

Thank you!  We have updated the docs to use the $(...) form:
http://www.tarsnap.com/simple-usage.html
http://www.tarsnap.com/tips.html#receive-mail

Cheers,
- Graham Percival

On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 05:20:25PM -0400, Garance AE Drosehn wrote:
> Note that you do want the backward-quotes for the 'date' part,
> but not for the full string.  But it would also be easier to read
> if you used the more modern alternative for the backward-quotes.
> 
> So try:
>    ...  -f "pictures-and-music $(date +%D-%M-%Y_%H-%M)"
> 
> Also, my guess is that you don't really want that first two
> date-values to be "%D-%M".  That gives you the full date followed
> by the minute.  I expect you want "%d-%m', which would give you
> day-of-month followed by the month-number.
> 
> Personally, I prefer to order time values by "bigness", so I'd
> use the order of year, month, day, hour, minute.  To get that,
> you'd go with:
> 
>    ...  -f "pictures-and-music $(date +%Y-%m%d_%H%M)"
> 
> Note that you need the string-delimiters to be double-quotes,
> not single-quotes.  If you used single-quotes, then the shell
> will not expand the $(date...) part.
> 
> I hope this helps.
> 
> 	-- garance alistair drosehn
> 
> 
> > On Wed, 1 Jun 2016 13:44:54 -0700
> > Sarah Alawami <marrie12@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> 
> >> Here is the script.
> >> 
> >> #!/bin/sh
> >> 
> >> /usr/local/bin/tarsnap -c \
> >> -v -f `pictures and music `date +%D-%M-%Y_%H-%M`` \
> >> /users/sa/music /users/sa/movies /users/sa/pictures
> >> # End of the script...
> >> 
> >> Do I have the right idea here? It looks like it half way works but it
> >> is not naming the archive what I want to name it. Once I get this set
> >> up I'll never need to worry again, I hope lol!
> >> 
> >> Everyone be blessed and have a happy wednesday.
>