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 1NN6M2-0007eP-2Y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:08:54 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0EAB0E07EC; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:08:19 +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 D131CE07EC for ; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:08:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pxi33 with SMTP id 33so4214463pxi.10 for ; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:08:18 -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=QJ4rYy3ccllJMpWhw3mlW3UySfk9mNDIdRFD9/JA5fg=; b=f2Vlhe55XUUvxLp/GmnInrZbnCvDCpxyaxXiDylwFdZ/sV/gNVm38AQs2E9+ZWMieM EYdQtHlNomfsk7DzUGtyxaTbSs/pNDOSuoMrv4DTvWjS4dqCiPcEEmGVEPX9J38MoHAs Gx4H3yvgzQWzgGp+YAPDE56XY3FoJoFEC1po8= 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=J3laQibzX4IFmWl1Lm4ojqbeVZaFKVw1+4XzkaCtCTI+Qca04Cnpa0vio8f63TlYnp hvBlUi79j1eL4gOLmJ+cdz6H+2Rbn5e/cXEm+FbrIbEHXuW55Um7cv20HU/WoVK8U9+r 3RGzY0iOViIZAJJsqlWyLqUroNfehD+tvWLlQ= 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 10.141.14.8 with SMTP id r8mr6251546rvi.261.1261494498324; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:08:18 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4B303B5D.2060400@gmail.com> References: <4B303B5D.2060400@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:08:18 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Writing a bash script or thinking about it anyway. From: Ward Poelmans To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 330928f3-4b10-46df-9470-2212a0066277 X-Archives-Hash: b600a224e346b6479242d7c1d18109d9 On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 04:22, 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? You should take a look at rsnapshot ( http://rsnapshot.org/ ). I use it and it works perfectly. But it's written in perl and not bash, i'm afraid. Ward