On Mon January 19 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: > > does this mean you are excluding backing up email? > > In that command. The next two statements, though, are: > > tar cvpsfj ${dest}/bkup_${y}_${x}-mail_ron.tar.bz2 home/me/Maildir > > tar cvpsfj ${dest}/bkup_${y}_${x}-mail_heather.tar.bz2 \ > home/heather/Maildir > > I do that since my bkup_${y}_${x}-home.tar.bz2 gets quite large, and > this makes it faster if I only have to restore some email.
so, the answer is YES, it does exclude MAIL, but you do that in another script separately.. no problem, I just wanted to be sure what I thought you ran does what I think it should:) -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Registered Ubuntu User #12459 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org