boy do i feel sheepish. if you are running 8.2 try running drakbackup from command line. sheesh. darn easy to use mandrake distro. i am changing to slackware.........
On Tuesday 26 March 2002 05:30 pm, shane opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: > On Wednesday 27 March 2002 09:26 am, Hanan Shargi opened a hailing > > frequency and transmitted: > > Thank you jon :) > > > > Buying your new service pack ... $70 > > Buying your high tech JAVA IDE .. $682 > > Writting your own backup_with_no_date_shell_script...Priceless > > > > for everything else... there is this NEWBIE LIST ;) > > LOL! > > > okay lets make this a true low_noise_mailing list > > Can anybody add to/ modify this scrip to make it usefull for /home > > directory backing ? As jon judt warned us against using it for this > > specific purpos ? > > i may be wrong, but isn't the only reason not to use it for that purpose > that it would backup itself? > > if so, simply backup to another folder/partition/whatever. /backup to an > old harddrive is my own solution. -- "'Tis some script kidd3z," I muttered, "tapping at my server port- Only this, and nothing more." - Edgar "root" Poe. shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 @ http://counter.li.org/
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