Jon,
Well, since Gerald was kind enough to help me out with some
programming, here's my opportunity to give back in kind :-)
The following Perl script will do what you want, as I don't
know of any tar command that will.
Run this script as a cron job.
Miark
--- The following line is the first line of the script ------
#!/usr/bin/perl
$precious_data = "~/whatever"; # What do you want to backup?
$archive_dir = "~/wherever"; # In which dir do you store backups?
$date = `date +%m-%d-%y`; chomp($date);
$archive_file = "backup-${date}.tar.gz";
$archive_path = $archive_dir . "/" . $archive_file;
$tar_command = "tar -czf $archive_path $precious_data";
exec $tar_command;
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