On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 09:20:43PM +0200, Chris Maaskant wrote:
Yes it copies all files in the given directory's to /backup
I don't understand the difference between copying files/directories and a backup?
Look below.
or does it do recursive backups as well?
If that means copying directories + subdirectories, then yes.
Sorry, brainfart on my side. I ment to say `incremential backups` http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incremental_backup What it does basicaly is first it makes a complete backup. The next backup is only the differences since the last time. I do 4 backups per day. A complete backup of what I want to have is about 5GB. I can go back to 2005-12-06 for restores and yet it only takes 20GB. The last full backup was done 2006-02-08. So aproximatly every 2 months I have a full backup. In between I get partial backups. The longer I go back, the more time is in between them. Situation that happend to me. I change a script and screw it up completely. I close it, safe it and am happily unaware that I screwed up. Two days later I look at the then empty file. Somehow I had managed to safe an empty file. A copy would have copied the empty file and I could then only recover the empty file. With an incremential, I could first recover the empty file, see that it was empty, then go back to the day that I knew I still had a working file and retrieve that. Although I lost some, I had not lost all of the content. houghi -- Nutze die Zeit. Sie ist das Kostbarste, was wir haben, denn es ist unwiederbringliche Lebenszeit. Leben ist aber mehr als Werk und Arbeit, und das Sein wichtiger als das Tun - Johannes Müller-Elmau