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David Kramer wrote:
>I wrote a perl script that starts out with a regexp of files/directories
>to always include (like my apache DocumentRoot) and a regexp of
>files/directories to always exclude (like /proc). It then does a "find /
>-type f", applying the include/exclude rules. Then I do:
> if($Source !~ /$ExcludeDirs/ &&
> $Source !~ /$ExcludeFiles/ &&
> -T $Source &&
> $Size < 10000 )
> {
> Debug("$Source\n\tNormal file, Size ($Size) and type OK");
> DoBackup();
> }
>
>Now here's the fun part:
>DoBackup() just creates a symbolic link, which takes up no hard drive
>space, from the file to be backed up to an identical spot under a build
>directory. When I've done all that, I use mkisofs (which follows the
>symlinks) to build an ISO I can burn on CD, or just mount -o loop.
Gee, it makes 'tar zcf etc.tgz /etc' (the "splat method") look
downright crude ... :-}
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David Talkington
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