On 01/19/2009 07:42 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote:
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..
Same script, next line.
no problem, I just wanted to be sure what I thought you ran does what I think it should:)
:) -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "I am not surprised, for we live long and are celebrated poopers."