Re: Backup with versioning

2004-12-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 12:51:11PM +0100, Bob Alexander wrote: > In my neverending tweaking of the system I would like to setup a backup > cron job which would not only (possibly incrementally) save the files or > directories I indicate, but for /etc and /home would keep the revisions > of the f

Re: Backup with versioning

2004-12-18 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, Bob Alexander wrote: > Maybe what you say is the right approach also for me and I could just > use the diff command to compare any restored file and the current version. things oyu should worry about: a) how to prove your backups works - restore "just the backups"

Re: Backup with versioning

2004-12-18 Thread Tom Vier
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Re: Backup with versioning

2004-12-18 Thread Tong
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 12:51:11 +0100, Bob Alexander wrote: > In my neverending tweaking of the system I would like to setup a backup > cron job which would not only (possibly incrementally) save the files or > directories I indicate, but for /etc and /home would keep the revisions > of the files

Re: Backup with versioning

2004-12-18 Thread William Ballard
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 12:51:11PM +0100, Bob Alexander wrote: > In my neverending tweaking of the system I would like to setup a backup > cron job which would not only (possibly incrementally) save the files or > directories I indicate, but for /etc and /home would keep the revisions > of the f

Re: Backup with versioning

2004-12-18 Thread Adam Aube
Bob Alexander wrote: > In my neverending tweaking of the system I would like to setup a backup > cron job which would not only (possibly incrementally) save the files or > directories I indicate, but for /etc and /home would keep the revisions > of the files in a versioning schema (like rcs, cvs e

Re: Backup with versioning

2004-12-18 Thread Bob Alexander
Alvin Oga wrote: > - backup scripts are all FREE ... and all require tweeking, which users and servers you want to backup to where Thank you Alvin, what you say is very very interesting. Maybe what you say is the right approach also for me and I could just use the diff command to compare any

Re: Backup with versioning

2004-12-18 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, Bob Alexander wrote: > In my neverending tweaking of the system I would like to setup a backup > cron job which would not only (possibly incrementally) save the files or > directories I indicate, but for /etc and /home would keep the revisions > of the files in a versioni

Re: Backup with versioning

2004-12-18 Thread Tim Kelley
On Saturday 18 December 2004 05:51, Bob Alexander wrote: > In my neverending tweaking of the system I would like to setup a backup > cron job which would not only (possibly incrementally) save the files or > directories I indicate, but for /etc and /home would keep the revisions > of the files in a

Re: Backup with versioning

2004-12-18 Thread Robert Vangel
Bob Alexander wrote: In my neverending tweaking of the system I would like to setup a backup cron job which would not only (possibly incrementally) save the files or directories I indicate, but for /etc and /home would keep the revisions of the files in a versioning schema (like rcs, cvs etc.) s