you can easily do this by combining the tar command with a find command - check out sites with incremental backup examples for tar/find basically your find output is then tar'd
eddie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Kennish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 4:07 PM Subject: [OT] Using tar > Sorry for the off-topic thread but Im going crazy with this problem.... > > It is about synchronising two different web sites by "tar"ring them. > > We want to create a .tar.gz file of our web site. We will regularly > download this .tar.gz and extract it to our local mirror of this web > site (on which we will do maintenance / update work.) We will then > create another .tar.gz from the local mirror and upload this to the main > site. > > The problem is, I do not want to overwrite ALL files on the web server - > only those that have a modification time that is earlier than the one in > the .tar.gz file (because it makes me nervous overwriting so many files > when not necessary :-).) Is there a way to do this? I have checked > > http://www.gnu.org/manual/tar/html_mono/tar.html > > from top to bottom (almost) but can't see one. Surely there must be a > simply way to do such a task? Perhaps theres a way of creating a > .tar.gz file on our mirror site that only contains files that have a > later modification date than the ones in the original .tar.gz (that was > downloaded from the web site)? > > Thanks in advance, > > > Ben Kennish > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.fubra.com > > ------------------------- The freeVSD Support List -------------------------- > Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=subscribe%20freevsd-support > Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=unsubscribe%20freevsd-support > Archives: http://freevsd.org/support/mail-archives/freevsd-support > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- > ------------------------- The freeVSD Support List -------------------------- Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=subscribe%20freevsd-support Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=unsubscribe%20freevsd-support Archives: http://freevsd.org/support/mail-archives/freevsd-support -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
