[luau] Reccomendations for backup routine/tools

Ben Beeson beesond001 at hawaii.rr.com
Thu May 23 19:56:00 PDT 2002


MonMotha,

	Enjoy... ;-)

	Your idea about the exempt directories etc is quite adaptable to the backup 
script. Just add them to the    egrep -v '(list)'  about two thirds of hte 
way down.  Thanks for that suggestion.

Good luck,

Ben 



On Thursday 23 May 2002 07:33 pm, you wrote:
> Thanks for mailing me the scripts, I'll take a look through them and
> might adapt them to a sort of homebrew backup system (which will of
> course get thrown up on freshmeat once I'm done, that's how my firewall
> got put up after all...).
>
> As for browser caches, it might be better to keep an exempt list around
> that tells tar to exempt your browser cache (and possibly other things)
> from being backed up.  This way you don't have to purge your cache and
> take the performance hit in your browser as you have to redownload
> everything.
>
> --MonMotha
>
>



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