On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 01:59:46PM +0200, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote: > On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Payal wrote: > > > Hi all > > Daily I take backup of a folder like this. > > tar -czf d-`date +%d%m%y`.tar.gz designs/ > > The size comes ~ 2Gb of tar ball. > > --update (-u) to tar would take care of that - it will only update changed > files - man tar for details.
Hmmm no. "-u" keeps "both" the copies. See below. $ touch test $ tar -cf d.tar test $ echo hi > test $ tar -uf d.tar test $ tar -tvf d.tar -rw-r--r-- payal/payal 0 2009-08-24 18:01 test -rw-r--r-- payal/payal 3 2009-08-24 18:02 test Payal _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
