On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 04:14:39PM +0000, Tyler Smith wrote: > Hi, > > Related to another post concerning the possible demise of my > harddrive, I thought I'd better confirm with wiser people that my > backup plan is doing what I think it's doing. > > I've got a full backup of all my important data in tar.gz files on my > harddrive and burned onto cds. I want to backup everything that has > been modified since the last full backup, so I use: > > tar --newer-mtime ../mail4Mar07.tar.gz -cvzf 18Mar2007.tar.gz \ > /home/tyler/bibtex/ /home/tyler/thesis/ /home/tyler/analysis/ \ > /home/tyler/grassdata/ /home/tyler/Mail/ > If you have more than one machine on your LAN, this is what you want:
http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ Have machine A take snapshots of B and vice versa. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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