Re: A pipe dream?

[Michael Procario <procario@hepc06.phys.cmu.edu>]

That is basically what I do. I back up my /etc tree and my /home tree to a 
zip. I do a complete backup once a week in a cron job and it still all fits on 
one zip.

It does not require much of script

tar -cf /zip/home.tar.gz -C /home .
tar -cf /zip/etc.tar.gz -C /etc .



 
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Michael Procario                                       EMAIL: procario@cmu.edu
Department of Physics                                  PHONE: 412/268-3887
Carnegie Mellon University      

              "Another casualty of applied metaphysics"
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