On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 12:38:30PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sunday 01 October 2006 11:37, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 11:12:05 -0700 > > > > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sunday 01 October 2006 10:42, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > > > Now the query. What program(s) would make a backup of the /home > > > > directory/partition, and store it /var/backups? > > > > > > faubackup if it's configured that way. > > > > Thanks > > > > Does faubackup do anything useful? If not, then I'll remove it next > > time I'm over there. > > faubackup is useful if you have an external hard drive, then you point > faubackup at that external drive's mount point for automated backups.
But wouldn't tar c[z]f /var/backups/<filename> /home do the same thing for the OP - perhaps as a cron job? -- David Jardine "Running Debian GNU/Linux and loving every minute of it." -L. von Sacher-M.(1835-1895) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
