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Re: backing up to ftp server



--- Alvin Oga <aoga@ns.Linux-Consulting.com> wrote: 

> tar zcvf today.tgz `find /etc /home -mtime -7 ( -type f -o -type l )
> -print

I think you'll find you'd need to escape the brackets, above.

> > Why ftp? Why not use rsync?
> 
> because rsync doesn't keep a copy of the last set of changes 
> before it overwrite it ?? 

Well, the OP did say "or incremental backups" as opposed to "and/or"...

[..snip..]

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