Alan Chandler wrote:
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
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
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
On Saturday 20 June 2009 11:29:14 pm Suno Ano wrote:
Tzafrir If you want to follow that route, you can use rsync as well.
Tzafrir Or even go a bit further and use hard-links (-H) to make
Tzafrir yourself a wayback machine.
Unison basically is a bidirectional rsync (the rsync algorithm is
Matthew Unison is the more complicated than necessary option here.
Matthew If all that is needed is backup, unison is not the best
Matthew choice.
true, but then having a backup without a clearly defined restore
scenario does not make a lot of sense. Once Unison is up and running
that part
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 09:57:09PM +0200, Suno Ano wrote:
Matthew Unison is the more complicated than necessary option here.
Matthew If all that is needed is backup, unison is not the best
Matthew choice.
true, but then having a backup without a clearly defined restore
scenario does
On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:26:54 -0600
Matthew Moore anonymous.jon...@gmail.com wrote:
...
As far as recommendations go, I would like to say that instead of messing
around with hard links to get an incremental backup solution, I would use
rdiff-backup, which was written for this exact purpose
Hi all,
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?
Thanks.
hi,
i prefer to use dar, it can do incremental backups as well.
greetings,
vitaminx
2009/6/20 ronggui wong ronggui.w...@gmail.com
Hi all,
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
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 01:01:52AM +0800, ronggui wong wrote:
Hi all,
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
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.
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
Tzafrir If you want to follow that route, you can use rsync as well.
Tzafrir Or even go a bit further and use hard-links (-H) to make
Tzafrir yourself a wayback machine.
Unison basically is a bidirectional rsync (the rsync algorithm is used),
so why make things more complicated than necessary
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