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.