On Friday 17 October 2003 13:13, Donald Henson wrote:
how to back up anything. I did find tar and that will work, I suppose, but it has a LOT of options
I use "RSYNC" regularly, throughout the day, to back up my /home to another partition. ............................ I use "CRON" to do tar backups of /etc /home & /var with the the following tiny scripts, at : 06:02 06:12 06:22 & 16:02 16:12 16:22 "cronetc" ................... #!/bin/sh # backup /etc /root /boot /usr/local # exec tar czvf /bup/etc`date +%y%m%d`.tar.gz /etc /root /boot /usr/local "cronhome" ....................... #!/bin/sh # backup /home # exec tar czvf /bup/home`date +%y%m%d`.tar.gz /home "cronvar" ................... #!/bin/sh # backup /var # exec tar czvf /bup/var`date +%y%m%d`.tar.gz /var/named /var/cron/tabs / var/spool/mail /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/greek .................................... best wishes ____________ sent on Linux ____________