n Sun, Jan 05, 2020 at 07:08:29PM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Sun, Jan 05, 2020 at 09:41:10AM -0700, Alan Feuerbacher wrote: > > > > What do you use for backup on Linux? For many years, on my Windows computer, > > I've had two extra backup disks installed, and use Acronis to do incremental > > backups to one of those disks every day. Every couple of weeks I switch the > > backup to the other disk, so I have some redundancy. > > > At the risk of pissing you off, it depends what you mean by backup > ;-) It also depends on what hardware you have. > Alternatively, when I was starting out in linux a guy called Lawson (I forget his surname, and it's probably before google) on some newbies list (possibly linux-newbies but google seems to have forgotten about that if it ever knew) offered 'tartar' :
#!/bin/bash tar -C "$1" -cOl . | tar -C "$2" -xpf - # #Lawson ĸen -- The right of the people to keep and arm Bears, shall not be infringed. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
