Re: [Sheflug] Backup advice

[Alex Hudson <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hm.. what's wrong with a quick

	rsync -cavz $src/ $dest/

	?

Or, rsync-diff (as used in ... um.. rsync-backup, I think it's called,
look on Freshmeat...)

Cheers,

Alex.

On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 11:12:27AM +0000, Craig Andrews wrote:
> > 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`
> 
> Further to my own email, try this one:
> 
> -- START --
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> # List of directories to back up
> dirlist="
> /home/me/backupfiles"
> 
> # Root to back up to
> backuproot="/tmp/backup"
> 
> # Check if backup root exists
> if [ ! -d $backuproot ]
>     then
>     mkdir -p $backuproot
> fi
> 
> # Loop through all directories in source list
> for srcdir in $dirlist
>   do
>   # Check if source dir exists
>   if [ -d $srcdir ]
>       then
>       # Create all appropriate destination directories
>       for destdir in `find $srcdir -type d`
> 	do
> 	if [ ! -d $destdir ]
> 	    then
> 	    mkdir -p $backuproot$destdir
> 	fi
>       done
>       # Copy all newer than those already there
>       # NB you may want to use -x here to stay on one filesystem
>       cp -uva $srcdir $backuproot$srcdir
>   else
>       # Oops! Invalid search directory
>       echo "$srcdir does not exists, or is not a directory"
>   fi
> done
> 
> -- END --
> 
> Just put your own source directories in the dirlist declaration at the top, 
> and your own destination in the backuproot. 
> 
> Craig
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