somethings wacky, cause i know within those 10 minuutes that i ran it twice, no why 200meg coulda changed :-)
so your saying that really it should only be ran once a day, otherwise i will get wacky results.. if its gunna write an increment, i will make the datestamped file have -inc- somewhere, that way if i do run it twice in one day, it wont overwrite the first one.. and perhaps instead of just a "day" timestamp, make it -year-month-day- for historical purposes.. other then that, the script is awesome, looks good, and obvioulsy is easy to maintain :) now we will work on a web frontend port in PHP, that will log backup information in a mysql database? you up for it? :) start the sourceforge account! :) David Smulsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thehostworks.com ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 12:50 PM Subject: RE: [cobalt-developers] Ideal backup method -----Original Message----- From: David Smulsky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Subject: Re: [cobalt-developers] Ideal backup method heheh yeah also, when i ran it twice in a row, my homes was a 500meg tar.. then the second time it was only 200.. wanna give me some insight on to why that happened?? thanks David Smulsky _______________________________ The way that is it supposed to work. 1st you run it - full backup of files & folders if day = Monday -> Saturday then just backup the files that have been changed if day = sunday then full back up if day (#) of month = 1 then full back up. It is called an incremental backup ... why you had strange results. I don't know, works on mine, and a few others I have it on. You need to delete the files if you plan on playing with it, other then that if you are downloading stuff, it is only going to backup the new stuff downloaded. Or in theory, that is how it should work. I am not a bash code, I like PHP or Perl, but free is free. ~Brian. _______________________________________________ cobalt-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-developers _______________________________________________ cobalt-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-developers
