Help with tar backup file

[belick]

Hi, I am not sure if this is the right place to ask for help but I will try...

 

I am tring to make a file that can be run by a cronjob on my linux. The file suppose to make a tar file for a specific folder and protect it with a password, then to upload it into FTP server...

 

Any help will be thanksful,

 

Thanks.

[trq]

Where exactly are you stuck? Or do you want us to write it?

[belick]

anything to start with...

[trq]

To tar a directory....

 

tar -cvf file.tar directory
gzip file.tar

 

To encrypt the new file using a password (ps: Ive never attempted this with anything other than text files).

 

mcrypt file.tar.gz

 

To ftp the encrypted file to a remote server.

 

ftp put file.tar.gz.nc hostname

[belick]

Thanks, do I put it in a .pl file?

[trq]

Thanks, do I put it in a .pl file?

 

If you write your script in perl. The examples I posted above will fit easily into a bash script.

[belick]

can you show example of bash script?

[trq]

#!/usr/bash
tar -cvf file.tar directory
gzip file.tar
mcrypt file.tar.gz
ftp put file.tar.gz.nc hostname

[steviewdr]

To be efficient:

 

#To quickly tar and gzip

tar -czvf file.gz directory

 

#To quickly untar and ungzip

tar -xzvf file.gz

 

Summary: just throw in a z.

 

-steve

[belick]

Questions:

 

#!/usr/bash               

tar -cvf file.tar directory         

gzip file.tar                            do I must go with zip too?

mcrypt file.tar.gz                    where do I place my pasword? I need to protect the file...

ftp put file.tar.gz.nc hostname  hostname means the ftp? where is the username and pass?

 

Thanks

 

 

[fert]

do I must go with zip too?

that doesn't make a zip archive, it makes a gzip archive you could go with other formats such as bzip.