* Richard Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, you wrote:
>> All's well and good until I get to the part where I want to exclude
>> a few directories from the backup. You know things like
>> ~/.netscape/cache and that sort of thing.
> I do it the simple way, or at least it seems the simplest way.
> mkdir /tmp/home cp wanted files and dirs /tmp/home If you script in
> the right order you can create a duplicate of /home in /tmp/home
Not sure if cp will do what I want to do. Because part of what I want
to do is to make incremental backups (only backing up files that have
changed since the last backup)
I had a quick look at the cp man page and it doesn't mention copying
files that have changed since a certain date.
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