[cobalt-developers] off topic but someone may know

["Jamie Rossi" <jamie@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

I am running CMU as a cron job to backup a lot of sites. One of these sites
is very high hitting (500,000 + a month). CMU keeps failing because there
are various files on the site that are hit every couple of seconds and are
updated, (such as mailing lists). CMU reports errors and fails because the
file changes as it atempts to back them up.

Anyone had similar problems, and if so how to resolve them?

Question 2.

Minds gone blank..how can I create a directory in a cronjob but add the date
as part of the directory name?

I want to do this so I can automatically create date related backups which
are the then ftp'd to a remote sever.

so I go mkdir /home/backups/backup%date%    whats the syntax to make %date%
print the current date and write this to te directory name.

Any help would be appreciated.

Jamie Rossi