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"...
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