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21 Sep
2006
21 Sep
'06
14:04
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
Something like this:
cd <dir to be backed up> find . -newer lastbackup | \ tee lastbackup | cpio --create -H tar --block-size=128 | \ bzip2 -c >backup.bz2
why not just
... | tee lastbackup | tar -T- --no-r -cvjf backup.tbz2
then?
No particular reason - I've just always used cpio. I didn't even know tar had the -T option. /Per Jessen, Zürich