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 1NMvoR-0001gE-PF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 03:53:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 044BDE092D; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 03:53:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-px0-f195.google.com (mail-px0-f195.google.com [209.85.216.195]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3C26E092D for ; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 03:53:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pxi33 with SMTP id 33so3897396pxi.10 for ; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:53:04 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=yAPqTE9DVB42poDmGdnyF3j3URM2PS2xGGM3M4AnQ+4=; b=eF76qjEqsKBGmDqh2A/QlOMtOJh7AUWuJqR/56fJQrPF5+5fL/qrOXt5a3iq0IUz8x bdu5Pi7QiHNVtvSJyGHaKxtSHA997QigznwGmD6C2wCT4XTuWBO9ItG80QqL9sBcKd8F WpZFo0yOpOTE8+v2ExQY/d9r70K47NotL/xpQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Q4JY2L2v4JjsEaevBQhcTuAK5otgRqwSKVm5acgHOSoBykqugJWI0hzgHzKmrTD3Pd FVCcq2r5VlrVcwltbNTv7VtkQFHemeBg7HLd0hdIHy2hP3N5pVMoYJVL6XNp7+Up3p9I SLCSIyJmIQ7NeqUPX/H/eA0BQXdAdgsj+rYr8= 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 Received: by 10.114.54.12 with SMTP id c12mr5596812waa.81.1261453984266; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:53:04 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4B303B5D.2060400@gmail.com> References: <4B303B5D.2060400@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 01:53:04 -0200 Message-ID: <543f3b9c0912211953id7918e3pfe6d602e1b03a53a@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Writing a bash script or thinking about it anyway. From: Francisco Ares To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 40759879-c977-47e1-b517-09e2ea3bd8a2 X-Archives-Hash: 66872886864b8351d5450050f17a8cad 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 thing= s. Francisco On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 1:22 AM, Dale wrote: > Hi folks, > > Me again. =C2=A0I'm thinking about writing a bash script that backs up my= /home > directory. =C2=A0I found a guide but before I read all that stuff and mud= dy up > the waters, is this thing current and will it work fine with the bash Gen= too > uses? =C2=A0Links to a even better guide would be good too. =C2=A0The gui= de I found is > here: > > http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ > > I'm going to try to do this myself but as most of you know, it takes me a > bit to grasp things. =C2=A0I may be back for advice on this as well. =C2= =A0Who knows, > maybe one day I can be a dev. =C2=A0LOL =C2=A0Well, most likely not reall= y but anyway. > > Thanks. > > Dale > > :-) =C2=A0:-) > > --=20 "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have one idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." - George Bernard Shaw