Quoting Alex Mandel ([email protected]): > For those of us not blessed with the gift of CLI....
...there's a neat little thing called xterm (and kin), a brand-new invention as of only a few decades ago. Gives you nice little bash prompts, as many of them as you want, in a pretty little graphical window. > commands like rsync can be a little rough to get the hang of... If you can't remember "rsync -avz source destination", you have much bigger problems. ;-> > ...and in the case of backup --exclude=PATTERN is actually a must > unless you've got unlimited space. Well, that depends on what you're copying, doesn't it? I'm usually copying an entire directory tree, or an entire filesystem. > And since we're not blessed by the CLI gods the PATTERN matching isn't > that straightforward either. If you can't figure out * and ?, which is generally all you need (and should be familiar at least to old fogies from DOS, which borrowed them and slightly screwed them up), you have _much_ bigger problems. > Also we're talking recursing into many nested subdirectories and from > several different places on the origin disk. It can easily add up to a > page of different rsync commands. Then, you put each of them in a series of consecutive lines, store that as a file, and run it as a script. Right? I mean, pretty much like DOS batch files. A to-do list for the shell. > Then you run into the debate about versions, and whether to only keep > one version. Simple backup makes it easy to do progressive backups, 1 > per year(older than 1 year), 1 per month, 1 per week for current month > and it manages it all for you. In reality it's a gui to a bunch of cron > rsync commands. Yes, having canned software make decisions for you rather than needing to think is indeed easier. > Which brings up the idea that some stuff may be under version control > and you want to skip those folder as the backup of the repository is > more useful. That would be the exclude options, which personally I don't bother to remember and look up when I need them. > I could go on, but I think I've said enough, Absolutely, please do feel welcome to proceed, if you feel you have things to get off your chest. _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
