Mark Veltzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. a backup software usually registers itself as a cron process. You don't > have to actually write the script or register it in cron.
No big deal, is it? > 2. a backup software is usually incremental. Meaning you can always have a > snapshot of last night and not waste the entire disk space every night. The > backup software only backs us all change since "level 0" (full last > backup). Easy with tar. > 5. a backup software keeps dates on files automatically. This means that you > can save years of backups and not worry about organizing the files yourself > according to dates (the backup software does it for you). I think tar can do that as well. Oleg, who has been backing up computers with tar (including incremental backups) scripts via cron for longer than he cares to remember, but mostly because he was too lazy to learn how good other backup tools were. ;-) -- Oleg Goldshmidt | ogoldshmidt(at)computer.org | http://www.goldshmidt.org/cv/ ============================================================================= First binary search algorithm - J. Mauchly, 1946. | Source: D. Knuth First correct binary search algorithm - D.H.Lehmer, 1960 | TAOCP, v.3, 1998 ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
