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On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 10:43:09AM +0000, Tony Sumner wrote:
> On Mar 04, 2008, Henry Bremridge was like:
>
> > Once created go through the list and remove the files you do not want
>
> I don't think this is a good idea. If you discard a file you want it is gone
> forever. Back up everything first and throw stuff away later.
>
let me rephrase:
1. In your home directory, create a text file of all files / directories
that you wish to back up
$ls -laF > Text_file.txt
2. Go through the file Text_file.txt and delete any line in that file that
relates to a file or directory that you do not want backed up. You may
need to add specific sub-directories by hand. Save the resulting file
eg I spent some time going through my list and saving only the stuff
that I wanted to save. For example: I was not concerned with all the
Openoffice setup files except my templates. Similarly I was not
interested in saving my Firefox plugins, cookies, cache etc: but I did
want my bookmarks.
Your mileage will differ.
3. Create a tar file of all directories files that you want backed up
$tar -cvf backed_up_files.tar --files-from=Text_file.txt
4. Compress backed up files
$bzip2 backed_up_files.tar
Other Issues
1. Steps 3 and 4 can be run at the same time
$tar -cvjf backed_up_files.tar --files-from=Text_file.txt
2. The backup command can be run from crontab so that every day all your
files are backed up
$tar -cvjf backed_up_files.tar --newer-mtime=20080101 --files-from=Text_file.txt
This command backs up all files that have been modified since 1 Jan
2008. Hence you can run a full back up and then automtically backup
all files since then and save those to a USB drive.
--
Henry
Wed Mar 5 11:37:02 GMT 2008
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