Re: tar on flash drive

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 01/19/2009 06:11 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Mon January 19 2009, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > ache/ \
> >          --exclude=heather/.evolution/mail   \
> >          --exclude=heather/.evolution/cache   \
> >         --exclude=heather/.sylpheed-2.0 \
> >         --exclude=me/Maildir \
> >         --exclude=heather/Maildir \
> >          home/
>
> does this mean you are excluding backing up email?

In that command.  The next two statements, though, are:

tar cvpsfj ${dest}/bkup_${y}_${x}-mail_ron.tar.bz2 home/me/Maildir

tar cvpsfj ${dest}/bkup_${y}_${x}-mail_heather.tar.bz2 \
    home/heather/Maildir

I do that since my bkup_${y}_${x}-home.tar.bz2 gets quite large, and 
this makes it faster if I only have to restore some email.

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

"I am not surprised, for we live long and are celebrated poopers."