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. > There are tens of folders/sub-folders inside design/. > I observed that many days none of the files in design folder are changed or > are added/deleted and > I am wasting resources making the tar-ball daily. > > Can I use make to take backups if files inside design/ are > modified/added/deleted or do I rather > depend on tar to figure it out? > hofrat _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
