(I hereby out myself as <anonymous>, the anonymization being pointless anyway, since Karsten hasn´t checked his References-Headers and they would reveal me anyway ;) )
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 00:49:06 PST, kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: > >on Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 08:26:48AM +0100, <anonymous> wrote: >> (private reply) > >Respondee redacted, response to list. > >> On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 13:51:36 PST, kmself@ix.netcom.com writes: >> > http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/backups.html >> >> I=B4d slightly extend your script and think that that may be good to >> include, for people not very familiar with the tools used: >> >> ----- >> backupdirs="/bin /boot /etc /initrd /lib /opt /root /sbin /usr /var" > ^^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^ >See the referenced document as to why it may be unnecessary (and perhaps >unwise) to archive system directories which can readily be restored from >installation media or via apt-get. Yes, it may be not be absolutely necessary, but I for one like _full_ backups, that way I can just boot from diskette and restore all&everything (excluding things not needed anyway to get a running system again) in one step. But this is to everyones own liking, IMHO. <backup with some path/files excluded> >Yes, you can use find for backups. I find (pun noted) my own mechanisms >sufficient. 'find' may produce problems with filenames containing >embedded blanks, haven't checked this myself. You may wish to >investigate. Yup, find has troubles with it. But as I don´t want _any_ files on my system containing spaces, I run a little script which changes them all to underscores anyway before I do any backup. But point taken, this is far from perfection (but so is your method ;) ). But this is one of the points of Open Source: everyone can look at the code, make changes and discuss the pros and cons in public. So we could start a discussion which level of complexitivity and abstraction is appropriate for a FAQ and then, once agreed, work out an appropriate solution... cheers, &rw -- / Ing. Robert Waldner | Network Engineer | T: +43 1 89933 F: x533 \ \ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | KPNQwest/AT | Diefenbachg. 35, A-1150 /
