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Rotating Folder Backup Script

Submitted by zany on Tue, 03/17/2009 - 13:38

How do you create folder backup archives and limit the size by rotating old ones out? A common task and there are plenty of solutions. This is more or less the poor man's solution I'm running from cron.

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