On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 03:06:41PM +0000, Coume - Lubox.com wrote:
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> The annoying thing with tar.gz IMHO is that it will always backup
> everything, when it could be easier and far more quicker to have an
> incremental stuff to backup only the modified files... any idea and
> tips are welcome :)
review the tar man page or info pages
info tar
man tar
You will find that you can pass tar a list of file names
and directory names.
If I only want a single file from /etc/ saved.
One file from /bin and all of /var/tmp saved
in a single tar archive "/tmp/tarball".
Something like this shell script might do the trick.
$ cat tarbundle.sh
#! /bin/bash
tar cvf /tmp/tarball \
/etc/passwd \
/bin/sh \
/var/tmp
This is sort of limited by the command line but, Even if NAMEs are
often specified on the command line, they can also be read from a text
file in the file system, using the `--files-from=FILE-OF-NAMES' (`-T
FILE-OF-NAMES') option.
What this implies is that a system admn can keep a list of each file
that is edited and automate a backup of it. Some files are configured
with tools but each of those can be discovered with a little attention.
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