Re: [ba-unrev-talk] Question about backing up
On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Henry K van Eyken wrote: (01)
> Does anyone know of a utility that will scan one's harddisk for files
> with a certain date or later and place copies of these in a single
> directory (from which one can create a CD-update to previously backed-up
> files)? For Windows; for Linux. (02)
On UNIX, to create a backup archive called backup.tar: (03)
tar cvf backup.tar `find sourcedir -mtime -n -print` (04)
where sourcedir is the directory you want to back up and n is the number
of days ago the files were last modified. So, for example, to back up all
of the files in /usr/local/httpd that were modified in the past week: (05)
tar cvf backup.tar `find /usr/local/httpd -mtime -7 -print` (06)
Ah, UNIX. :-) (07)
-Eugene (08)
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