Re: [gentoo-user] Writing a bash script or thinking about it anyway.

[Ward Poelmans <wpoely86@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 16:39, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:08:18 +0100, Ward Poelmans wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> That misses the point. This isn't really about making backups, it's about
> learning to write shell scripts. Backing up is just the project that Dale
> has chosen for this first effort, at least that's how I read it.

Sorry, i've read the original message a bit too fast. But it's still
worth to take a look at how rsnapshot works if you want to write
anything yourself. I think that the combination of rsync and hardlinks
is quite effective and fast.

Ward