On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 23:08:40 +0200
David Jardine <david@jardine.de> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 12:38:30PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > On Sunday 01 October 2006 11:37, Rodney D. Myers wrote:
> > > On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 11:12:05 -0700
> > >
> > > Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca> wrote:
> > > > On Sunday 01 October 2006 10:42, Rodney D. Myers wrote:
> > > > > Now the query. What program(s) would make a backup of the /home
> > > > > directory/partition, and store it /var/backups?
> > > >
> > > > faubackup if it's configured that way.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Does faubackup do anything useful? If not, then I'll remove it next
> > > time I'm over there.
> >
> > faubackup is useful if you have an external hard drive, then you point
> > faubackup at that external drive's mount point for automated backups.
>
> But wouldn't
>
> tar c[z]f /var/backups/<filename> /home
>
> do the same thing for the OP - perhaps as a cron job?
>
If that's what I wanted, probably. But I dont' want to back up /home at
all.
That's why I was asking what may be doing it, so I can turn it off.
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