Re: Backup config files in home directory

["Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@vianet.ca>]

On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 01:01:52AM +0800, ronggui wong wrote:
> 
> I have other files and directories in the home directory, and I just
> want to backup all the config files, most of them are hidden files and
> directories. Now I use tar and manually exclude my other files and
> directories with --exclude argument. Is there a better way to do this?

You'd have to define 'better'.  A tar archive is certanly easy to
restore.  You can even just pull in one file out of an archive.  You can
look into the archive interactivly with midnight commander.  

Personally, I use tar for all my backups.

Doug.