[PLUG] Backup Script

[Jason Nicholls]

Hello,

On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 11:14:27AM +0800, Adam Davin wrote:
> This is nothing Special, It's a script I wrote to copy files to a directory 
> structure from an existing directory structure, and maintaining the file's 
> location.
> 
> Not explained terribly well.
> 
> Was just interested in some opinion of the scripting and whether there 
> might have been an easier way to do it. It works well, does exactly what I 
> need it to do (that's the idea I believe)

Unless I'm missing some of the functionality you have included, in one word:
rsync. My backup script is pretty light weight, consists of a file with a list
of systems (other computers, backup over the network) and backup dir locations,
a list of filesystems to backup, and a list of excludes.



Later,

Jason Nicholls
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