On 20/11/11 19:53, Avi Greenbury wrote:
Aw, c'mon, other people might find the same solution useful :)
OK - sorry if I annoy some folk .... here's the script I use. Zenity (the gui bit) is messy and complicated, but useful.
Regards, Barry. -- Barry Drake is a member of the the Ubuntu Advertising team. http://ubuntuadverts.org/
#! /bin/bash if zenity --question --text "Do you want me to backup your files?" = 0; then #rsync -r --progress /home/barry /media/hda1/backups/barry_pc | tee >(zenity --progress --text="Backing up files ....") >/home/barry/backup_log.txt rsync -r --exclude=.* --progress /home/barry /media/storage/backups/barry_pc | tee >(zenity --progress --pulsate --text="Backing up files ....") >/home/barry/backup_log.txt killall zenity #rsync -r --progress /home/barry/.evolution /media/hda1/backups/barry_pc/barry | tee >(zenity --progress --pulsate --text="Backing up files ....") >/home/barry/backup_log.txt killall zenity rsync -r --progress /home/barry/.mozilla /media/storage/backups/barry_pc/barry | tee >(zenity --progress --pulsate --text="Backing up files ....") >/home/barry/backup_log.txt rsync -r --progress /home/barry/.thunderbird /media/storage/backups/barry_pc/barry/thunderbird | tee >(zenity --progress --pulsate --text="Backing up files ....") >/home/barry/backup_log.txt #zenity --info --text="File backup in progress ...." #rsync -r /home/barry /media/storage/backups/barry_pc killall zenity sleep 30 | tee >(zenity --info --text="Backup completed sucessfully") fi
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