Re: tar on flash drive

[Paul Cartwright <ale@pcartwright.com>]

On Mon January 19 2009, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > 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.

so, the answer is YES, it does exclude MAIL, but you do that in another script 
separately.. no problem, I just wanted to be sure what I thought you ran does 
what I think it should:)


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