Re: Backup config files in home directory

[Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir@cohens.org.il>]

On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 09:58:43PM +0200, Suno Ano wrote:
> 
>  ronggui> Hi all, I have other files and directories in the home
>  ronggui> directory, and I just want to backup all the config files,
>  ronggui> most of them are hidden files and directories. Now I use tar
>  ronggui> and manually exclude my other files and directories with
>  ronggui> --exclude argument. Is there a better way to do this?
> 
> You could give http://sunoano.name/ws/public_xhtml/unison.html a try.

If you want to follow that route, you can use rsync as well. Or even go
a bit further and use hard-links (-H) to make yourself a "wayback
machine".

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