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Re: [Sheflug] Backup advice

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From: Craig Andrews <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 10:55:33 +0000
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On Monday 25 March 2002 10:33, you exclaimed:
> Anyone got any advice about what apps I should use to do this job?  It
> would be nice to be able to automate it so I can simply define a few dirs
> (inc. the MySQL databses) to back up and it gets done say once a week. 
> Don't worry, I'm not asking to be spoon fed here, I just want advice from

There are various shell commands available to be put into a script for this 
purpose. For instance, if you use the update option of copy (-u) only newer 
or new files are copied, thus solving the problem of copying existing files.

find is also a good one for this. See `man find`

HTH

Craig
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