Thanks Salim, but just using cron does not solve the problem. I guess I'm
really looking for a smart "backup.sh" that will handle the naming of the
backup file depending on whether it's doing a daily, weekly or monthly
backup. I do agree that cron is the obvious choice for running the script.

Tom

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Salim Naufal [mailto:salim.naufal@...]
> Sent: Friday, 7 May 2004 23:52
> To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [firebird-support] Equivalent of GbakSchd for Linux
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> Use the crontab of linux
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> For example,
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> Crontab -e
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> Then in the editor set the following line:
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> 50 16 * * 1-5 /backups/backup.sh
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> (at 16:50, every day, evey month, from Monday to Friday, execute the
> /backups/backup.sh script)
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> in the /backup/backup.sh script, set
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> /opt/firebird/gbak -b (-T if you want it transportable) -user sysdba
> -password masterkey (or other pwd) /database/db.fdb /backup/db.fbk
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> you can also add the compression
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> gzip -9 (for maximum compression) /backup/db.fbk
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Munro Glass [mailto:tom@...]
> Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 7:35 AM
> To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [firebird-support] Equivalent of GbakSchd for Linux
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> Is there an equivalent of the very useful GbakSchd.exe utility for Linux?
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> I'm looking for a way of doing 'smart' backups, i.e. daily, weekly and
> monthly files.
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> Regards,
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> Tom Munro Glass
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