Alan Chandler wrote:
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 01:01:52AM +0800, ronggui wong wrote:
I have other files and directories in the home directory, and I just
want to backup all the config files, most of them are hidden files and
directories. Now I use tar and manually exclude
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 01:01:52AM +0800, ronggui wong wrote:
>
> I have other files and directories in the home directory, and I just
> want to backup all the config files, most of them are hidden files and
> directories. Now I use tar and manually exclude my other files and
> directories with --
On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:26:54 -0600
Matthew Moore wrote:
...
> As far as recommendations go, I would like to say that instead of messing
> around with hard links to get an incremental backup solution, I would use
> rdiff-backup, which was written for this exact purpose (rsync + hard links).
Or
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 09:57:09PM +0200, Suno Ano wrote:
>
> Matthew> Unison is the "more complicated than necessary" option here.
> Matthew> If all that is needed is backup, unison is not the best
> Matthew> choice.
>
> true, but then having a backup without a clearly defined restore
> scena
Matthew> Unison is the "more complicated than necessary" option here.
Matthew> If all that is needed is backup, unison is not the best
Matthew> choice.
true, but then having a backup without a clearly defined restore
scenario does not make a lot of sense. Once Unison is up and running
that par
On Saturday 20 June 2009 11:29:14 pm Suno Ano wrote:
> Tzafrir> If you want to follow that route, you can use rsync as well.
> Tzafrir> Or even go a bit further and use hard-links (-H) to make
> Tzafrir> yourself a "wayback machine".
>
> Unison basically is a bidirectional rsync (the rsync algor
Tzafrir> If you want to follow that route, you can use rsync as well.
Tzafrir> Or even go a bit further and use hard-links (-H) to make
Tzafrir> yourself a "wayback machine".
Unison basically is a bidirectional rsync (the rsync algorithm is used),
so why make things more complicated than neces
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 09:58:43PM +0200, Suno Ano wrote:
>
> ronggui> Hi all, I have other files and directories in the home
> ronggui> directory, and I just want to backup all the config files,
> ronggui> most of them are hidden files and directories. Now I use tar
> ronggui> and manually ex
ronggui> Hi all, I have other files and directories in the home
ronggui> directory, and I just want to backup all the config files,
ronggui> most of them are hidden files and directories. Now I use tar
ronggui> and manually exclude my other files and directories with
ronggui> --exclude argume
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 01:01:52AM +0800, ronggui wong wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have other files and directories in the home directory, and I just
> want to backup all the config files, most of them are hidden files and
> directories. Now I use tar and manually exclude my other files and
> directori
hi,
i prefer to use dar, it can do incremental backups as well.
greetings,
vitaminx
2009/6/20 ronggui wong
> Hi all,
>
> I have other files and directories in the home directory, and I just
> want to backup all the config files, most of them are hidden files and
> directories. Now I use tar a
Hi all,
I have other files and directories in the home directory, and I just
want to backup all the config files, most of them are hidden files and
directories. Now I use tar and manually exclude my other files and
directories with --exclude argument. Is there a better way to do this?
Thanks.
Ro
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