[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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