Re: [cobalt-developers] off topic but someone may know

["Steve Werby" <steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Jamie Rossi" <jamie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

Perhaps you should consider stopping Apache and the mailserver temporarily
while generating the backups.

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

In the bash shell you can use the date program.  mkdir something-`date
+%Y-%m-%d` for example.

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