Ken Irving wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 06:58:27PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >> P Kapat wrote: >>> Can you provide your script? I was looking for some thing very >>> similar. I have been fiddling around with Keep but not quite >>> satisfied. >> No warranties 8-) >> >> The man pages will help to understand the options, you should >> verify and adopt them to your situation. >> >> I tried to translate some prompts to English. This one makes no >> backups, I have slightly more complex ones, but those contain more >> German. >> >> The line with backups is like >> >> rsync -avb --delete --backup-dir=/media/sda2/altjohannes \ >> --suffix=-`date +%y%m%d%H%M` \ /johannes2 /media/sda2 >> >> (or all on one line without the '\') > > There are also packages set up to do this sort of thing, e.g., > rsnapshot, which started life as the author's home-grown script. > > Hmm, looking at the subject I'm not sure if this is on-topic... The > context quoted in this message isn't very complete.
I will try to trim less next time. To quote from this thread: Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/18/07 21:00, Randy Patterson wrote: >> Thanks so much for all the good input from everyone. I now have to >> go to work >> checking out some of the packages to see which is the best for my >> current >> needs. I have already install lftp and will try sitecopy as well. > > This thread is a perfect example of why people asking opinion > questions should rather ask "task-oriented" questions instead of > getting tunnel vision and saying "Where's the exact copy of my > favorite Windows <X> program?". > > (Note that I'm not ragging on Randy, or belittling him. It's a trap > we all fall into.) ;-) Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
