From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NMwAx-0003qs-TK for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 04:16:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AD814E0962; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 04:16:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f224.google.com (mail-gx0-f224.google.com [209.85.217.224]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D42DE0962 for ; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 04:16:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk24 with SMTP id 24so4594836gxk.6 for ; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:16:30 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=wnTGRQ4VeN286hP9SEN6KuCkRJBF+jOlp8CSvyEEEAA=; b=E+oqIYD6QtHBH3/zGRhDdAub2kmPRNryMvLpJPlKMSz0KPkN2tDekHFTb+wGQvmcoJ PsDK0vocbP6ElvWJHSR9fpQuCC0W0ZqPrK5iiX/DFGf8UOFs+9+jAVt2IcX9PC3mOPU7 BzXM7eFbVR75eIEUZd5rM5INKDJZGotbwKF4Y= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=vTT4nyndQmYi6Kzakhb6oub526k2Ey5/i3rU8XuoW8on16+GM6WryTEdqRIGHEGCTP gvCxjd4t7FwwHCwxponmiBagckuxb1hYnK/F7o70iQfd8yqVdjsHTs8tY3c3uLL2r/ux iUmLHLQ/uyexAUCEyEUGTsoWu4FfZTaabUfVQ= Received: by 10.90.43.4 with SMTP id q4mr4177479agq.31.1261455388865; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:16:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.1? (adsl-0-95-234.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.95.234]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 15sm2658762gxk.0.2009.12.21.20.16.26 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:16:27 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B304819.40905@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:16:25 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20091201 SeaMonkey/1.1.18 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Writing a bash script or thinking about it anyway. References: <4B303B5D.2060400@gmail.com> <543f3b9c0912211953id7918e3pfe6d602e1b03a53a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <543f3b9c0912211953id7918e3pfe6d602e1b03a53a@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 53324284-deb3-4669-9c1d-0a7304921e9e X-Archives-Hash: cb821f48009c6c9119c5d907102765eb Francisco Ares wrote: > I probably didn't get the point, but what about a simple "tar"? > > #! /bin/bash > tar -cjvpf /tmp/home.tbz /home > mv /tmp/home.tbz /some/where/else > > unless you're thinking on incremental back up, and more sophisticated things. > > Francisco > > Well, I want to start off making a small script. Maybe get a little more complicated later on. I do want to do incremental backups, at least at first. I may later on use tar and something to keep say two copies and then delete the older ones. Just trying to get my feet wet here. Trying to be simple at first and go from there. If I try to cram to much in my head at one time, I get brain lock. Thanks. Dale :-) :-)