Any way to have ADMIN_backup.pl add date to backup filename?

[rockgeneral]

Howdy Everybody!

I have the ADMIN_backup.pl script successfully running and uploading the resulting .gz file to an an FTP server. I was wondering if there was a way to make the script add the date to the filename so that it doesn't overwrite the previous days backup file? Or if there is a way to have the FTP portion of the script create a folder with the current date for each days backup? Similar to how the recordings FTP script creates a folder for the current date if one doesn't already exist. Truthfully, having it create the daily folder on the FTP would be preferable.

Thanks,

Rockgeneral

[mflorell]

That is not currently an option, although it will not overwrite the previous day's file because each gz backup file is named with the number of the weekday(0-6). So it will keep the previous 6 day's backups in place on the local server and the FTP you are sending the files to.

[rockgeneral]

Matt,

I checked the FTP today and noticed that the next backup that ran had a 4 appended rather than the 3 which was on the backup I ran yesterday. I was just about to post a reply to my post about this. Thanks for clarifying. This will work perfectly.

Thanks again!

Rockgeneral