On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 21:13, Philip Webb wrote: > 030918 Todd Lyons wrote: > > Philip Webb wanted us to know: > >> my reason is not space, but emergency re-installs (hopefully never needed). > >> it wb nice not to lose my fine-tuned settings & configur'ns, > >> but i'm fairly conscientious re back-ups, which always include /etc , > >> so it's not vital to be able to re-install w/o reformatting /etc . > > Once a night or so: > > rsync -avR /etc /usr/backup > > Now you'll have a copy in /usr/backup/etc. > > why 'rsync'? the man file says it's for use over a network. > 'cp' shd do the job just as well.
yes, but... [EMAIL PROTECTED] jack]$ sudo du -h --summarize /etc/ 20M /etc of which how much changes daily? Maybe two kilobytes? Sure the resources are there to waste, but getting in the habit of using rsync doesn't hurt either. > > on my new larger HDD i do intend to have a part'n /bkp > & i already have a script for backing up the dirs i need to back up, > so making a cron job out of these items is the likely sol'n. Also google for rsync and hard links -- there's some neat scripts for creating backup version trees that only use space for changed files. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
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