Re: backing up

[Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net>]

On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 19:27 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 12:49 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
> > On 27/05/12 10:04 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > > If you added
> > >>>>> cp -R ~/.thunderbird ~/.thunderbird.backup
> > > to a script, than the backup must be in ~/.
> > >
> > > Perhaps the script runs "cd /var/lib/gdm3" and you added "cp -R
> > > ~/.thunderbird .thunderbird.backup", the backup without the path?
> > >
> > > You should post what exactly you edited.
> > >
> > > - Ralf
> > >
> > >
> > 
> > You're partly right :)
> > 
> > frank@sid:/etc/gdm3/PostSession$
> > cat Default
> > #!/bin/sh
> > cp -R /home/frank/.thunderbird  thunderbird.backup
> > exit 0
> > 
> > frank@sid:/etc/gdm3/PostSession$
> > 
> > I failed to add "/home/frank" or ~ to the destination, perhaps
> > thinking wrongly cp would copy to the original directory.
> > My mistake...now fixed...
> 
> cp -R /home/frank/.thunderbird  /home/frank/.thunderbird.backup
> Always would do this for /frank, even if another user would close a
> session?

PS: Perhaps it's impossible for another user to write to /frank?

> 
> cp -R ~/.thunderbird  ~/.thunderbird.backup
> Always would do a backup for the current user closing a session, even if
> this user would not like to have a backup?
> 
> Perhaps you need to check if user /frank does close a session and then
> only backup.