Re: Backup config files in home directory

2009-06-23 Thread Alan Chandler
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

Re: Backup config files in home directory

2009-06-22 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
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 --

Re: Backup config files in home directory

2009-06-21 Thread Celejar
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

Re: Backup config files in home directory

2009-06-21 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
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

Re: Backup config files in home directory

2009-06-21 Thread Suno Ano
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

Re: Backup config files in home directory

2009-06-21 Thread Matthew Moore
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

Re: Backup config files in home directory

2009-06-20 Thread Suno Ano
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

Re: Backup config files in home directory

2009-06-20 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
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

Re: Backup config files in home directory

2009-06-20 Thread Suno Ano
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

Re: Backup config files in home directory

2009-06-20 Thread Osamu Aoki
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

Re: Backup config files in home directory

2009-06-20 Thread me
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