Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3785 mails)

[Jim Bonnet <jimbo@xxxxxxx>]

Damian Buckley wrote:

> Hello,
>   I have two seperate directories I wish to backup on the linux system
> /home and /usr.  I don't seem to be able to find a way to enter the
> correct path in the crontab so I decided to create a script which takes
> the contents of /home and inputs it into a file, then append the file
> with the input of the /usr directory.  What I now need to know is how
> can I get the cpio command to acknowledge this log file and backup all
> the filenames entered in there???
>
> Somebody please help.
>
>  

I think what you mean is that you want to backup these two dir's from 
cron? If not... sorry for the interruption =)

But:

find /home /usr | cpio -ocvO /output_file.cpio

will do the trick for your command, then just mold that into your 
crontab.. no need to make files and append stuff..

-Jim