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

["Jamie Rossi" <jamie@xxxxxxxxx>]

Steve

Thats what I do presently, but as the sit takes so long to backup stopping
Apache is not appropriate. I was looking for a way to backup open files.

Cheers

Jamie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Werby" <steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2001 10:52 PM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-developers] off topic but someone may know


> "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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