Admin backup gets overwritten every night

[Guillermo]

I''m trying out the admin backup, so far so good. Instead of creating a new backup every night, it overwrites the backup from the last day. Is there a way to create a new backup every day? Like the system backup does.

 

[X-Hosted]

Just make a folder called ''0'' for sunday, a folder ''1'' for monday.. and so on

 

[Guillermo]

Yeah, but first the admin backup script needs to be modified. How does it otherwise know to put it in folder 0 on monday and folder 1 on tuesday.

 

[X-Hosted]

Just create a different backup job for each day

Step 2: Day of Week = 0
Step 3: Where = /home/admin/admin_backups/0/

--

Step 2: Day of Week = 1
Step 3: Where = /home/admin/admin_backups/1/

and so on this is the way i'm keeping my backups for 7 days.

All through, it would be a usefull feature to have a option to make the date as folder too, why dont you submit this as a feature request?

 

[Guillermo]

Ahh yeah ofcourse! Lol, why didn't i think about that.

Bedankt.

 

[kke]

In another way, I use both admin backup and system backup (include home folder)

so even admin backup has replaced every night, but it still exist in system backup of each days.

and here is my script to delete system backup for x days old to avoid disk full
http://www.directadmin.com/forum/showpost.php?p=85542

 

[floyd]

and here is my script to delete system backup for x days old to avoid disk full

Wouldn't it be easier to set up a cron job to run this one command:

find /home/admin/backup_folder -mtime +7 -exec rm {} \; -print

7 being the number of days old.