Re: backing up
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?
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.
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