[NTLUG:Discuss] Backup
Chris Cox
cjcox at acm.org
Tue Oct 9 11:19:27 CDT 2001
I don't think Steve recommended an archival tool though...
you may want to consider using GNU tar. (man tar... might
have to do info tar). Of course you could just do a
directory copy (cp -a), but creating tar-balls is probably
easier to organize and track.
Steve wrote:
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> Patrick Parks wrote:
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>> Hi all, I have a question that is probably trivial for some of you
>> out there. Is there a backup program, or something from the command
>> line that I could run, or possibly schedule to run a backup of a dir
>> containing files and dir's? The data that I want to backup is on my
>> laptop, and the place I want to back it up to is on my server (RH 7.1
>> on both). Both are running NFS to see each other. Thanks in advance.
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> The simplest way that I can think of is using crontab which is a program
> that executes your commands at certain time intervals. See man crontab
> for more details.
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> Steve
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