Backup By Create Date??

[rhearn]

I need to backup some files by create/modify date. Does anyone know of any easy way to do this. I would probably be using either TAR or BACKUP.

Thanks In Advance.

Rich

 

[ElgisRamon]

It's impossible a backup by creation date because AIX (like other normal *ixes do) doesn't store the creation date of files!

You can backup files like this:
Relative paths:
[tt]
cd /starting/dir
find . -print | backup -iqvf /backup/file/or/device
[/tt]
Full paths
[tt]
find /starting/dir -print | backup -iqvf /backup/file/or/device
[/tt]

You can specify modification dates like this
Relative way:
[tt]
cd /starting/dir
find . -mtime +9 -print | backup -iqvf /backup/file/or/device
[/tt]
The [tt]-mtime +9[/tt] tells to [tt]find[/tt] command to only select files with nine or more days old of modified (Exactly 9*24 hours old of modified). Change to suit your needs.
I hope it works...
Unix was made by and for smart people.

 

[aixqueen]

the backup command has incremental backups

Remember you do need a mksysb from time to time to have the boot up, and lv sizes and stuff as well as data....

http://www.rs6000.ibm.com/doc_link/en_US/a_doc_lib/aixbman/admnconc/backup_strat.htm

http://www.rs6000.ibm.com/doc_link/en_US/a_doc_lib/aixbman/baseadmn/backup_sched.htm#A17B849175benw

http://www.rs6000.ibm.com/doc_link/en_US/a_doc_lib/cmds/aixcmds1/backup.htm

You can also do it with a find command........... by mtime or by comparison of file dates.....