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Re: using make for backups
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Nicholas Mc Guire |
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Re: using make for backups |
Date: |
Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:59:46 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) |
On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Payal wrote:
> Hi all
> Daily I take backup of a folder like this.
> tar -czf d-`date +%d%m%y`.tar.gz designs/
> The size comes ~ 2Gb of tar ball.
--update (-u) to tar would take care of that - it will only update changed
files - man tar for details.
> There are tens of folders/sub-folders inside design/.
> I observed that many days none of the files in design folder are changed or
> are added/deleted and
> I am wasting resources making the tar-ball daily.
>
> Can I use make to take backups if files inside design/ are
> modified/added/deleted or do I rather
> depend on tar to figure it out?
>
hofrat
Re: using make for backups, Harvey Chapman, 2009/08/24