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Re: tar syntax and backing up



On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 04:14:39PM +0000, Tyler Smith wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Related to another post concerning the possible demise of my
> harddrive, I thought I'd better confirm with wiser people that my
> backup plan is doing what I think it's doing.
> 
> I've got a full backup of all my important data in tar.gz files on my
> harddrive and burned onto cds. I want to backup everything that has
> been modified since the last full backup, so I use:
> 
> tar --newer-mtime ../mail4Mar07.tar.gz -cvzf 18Mar2007.tar.gz \
>  /home/tyler/bibtex/ /home/tyler/thesis/ /home/tyler/analysis/ \
>  /home/tyler/grassdata/ /home/tyler/Mail/
> 
If you have more than one machine on your LAN, this is what you want:

http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/

Have machine A take snapshots of B and vice versa.

Regards,

-Roberto

-- 
Roberto C. Sánchez
http://people.connexer.com/~roberto
http://www.connexer.com

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