Daily backup

[Cybex]

Hi People,

I am currently using "Admin Backup/Transfer" to backup all clients every day to an FTP server in a specific directory. I would like to create daily backups in specific directories, is there an easy way to accomplish this?

Current situation:

backups / server 1 / bla1.tar.gz
backups / server 1 / bla2.tar.gz
backups / server 1 / bla3.tar.gz
backups / server 2 / bla1.tar.gz
backups / server 2 / bla2.tar.gz
backups / server 3 / bla1.tar.gz
etc

Desired situation:

backups / server 1 / [B]monday[/B] / bla1.tar.gz
backups / server 1 / [B]monday[/B] / bla2.tar.gz
backups / server 1 / [B]monday[/B] / bla3.tar.gz
backups / server 2 / [B]monday[/B] / bla1.tar.gz
backups / server 2 / [B]monday[/B] / bla2.tar.gz
backups / server 3 / [B]monday[/B] / bla1.tar.gz
backups / server 1 / [B]monday[/B] / bla1.tar.gz
backups / server 1 / [B]tuesday[/B] / bla2.tar.gz
backups / server 1 / [B]tuesday[/B] / bla3.tar.gz
backups / server 2 / [B]tuesday[/B] / bla1.tar.gz
backups / server 2 / [B]tuesday[/B] / bla2.tar.gz
backups / server 3 / [B]tuesday[/B] / bla1.tar.gz
etc

I know I can create a cronjob for *every* day, but surely there's a way to make the life of an admin simpler? right? ;-)

 

[zEitEr]

http://www.directadmin.com/forum/showpost.php?p=195944&postcount=3

 

[nobaloney]

We prefer to use a script which runs on the backup server, to rotate the directories, similarly to the way we rotate logs. But either way works.

Jeff