Jim Cunning wrote:
On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 07:18, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: [...]
I have decided that the easiest way to backup is with a copy of the affected material onto another harddrive. I have a secondary drive(HDD) installed that I have used for copying odds and sods of unimportant information. I have approx 5Gb free on the drive that I can use for backup space.
Why not try storeBackup? It's a (Perl) script that's already written and checked-out, and does what you want to do:
pin 0.29 - package info for storeBackup <snip> Thanks. From what you say it is exactly what I am looking for. I checked in YAST and I have version 1.14-13 installed.
Documentation is a little scarce ie '$ man storebackup' didn't produce any documentation and neither did '$ info storebackup'. After a KDE 'storebackup' file search I found some documentation and hope that that contains most of the setup info I need. From what I have read store backup is pretty thorough and whilst I might need it, it would've been nice to script my own as my first script. I'll concentrate instead on configuring storebackup and leave the scripting to start later. :) I'll continue reading thru the storebackup docs I found, and revert when the inevitable queries arise. Please pass on any further docs or URL's that might help in its configuration/explanation. -- ======================================================================== Hylton Conacher - Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org Currently using SuSE 9.0 Professional with KDE 3.1 ========================================================================