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
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Name : storeBackup Relocations: (not
relocatable)
Version : 1.19 Vendor: SuSE Linux AG,
Nuernberg, Germany
Release : 1.1 Build Date: Mon 12 Sep 2005
10:34:43 AM PDT
Install date: Tue 15 Nov 2005 03:02:36 PM PST Build Host:
niobe.suse.de
Group : Productivity/Archiving/Backup Source RPM:
storeBackup-1.19-1.1.src.rpm
Size : 515369 License: GPL
Signature : DSA/SHA1, Tue 13 Sep 2005 07:02:03 AM PDT, Key ID
a84edae89c800aca
Packager : http://www.suse.de/feedback
URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/storebackup/
Summary : storeBackup is a Disk-to-Disk Backup Tool for Linux
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Jim Cunning