On 07/04/2008, Haines Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Noah Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Why don't you use a prebuilt package such as backup2l? > > > Noah, I might just do that. I've spent a lot of time struggling with the > backup script, which only offered the advantage of having unarchived > files, > but in recent years I've not found it as necessary to recover single > files as I used to, and doing so does not seem at all difficult with > backup2l. I'm giving it a look. > > -- > > Haines Brown, KB1GRM
Hey, There are other options around too such as local rsync. Something like this should work similarly: rsync -avh --exclude=/media --exclude=/proc --exclude=/sys / /media/mirror/${dirName}/ 2>&1 | cat -vT > /home/brownh/.backup.log cheers, Owen. -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >