Backup script

[Thilo Six]

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Dotan Cohen wrote the following on 06.06.2006 14:57:
> I've been looking for a backup solution for my Kubuntu box, and I'm
> not really happy with any software that I see. So I'm trying to find a
> variant of "cp" that would just copy everything in /home/user/ that
> has been changed in the past X days to /home/user/backup including
> hidden files. I would then just burn ~/backup to a CD-R. I can't get a
> handle on the syntax, though. How is this done?
> 
> Note, a link to a bash tutorial that covers this would be nice, too.
> I've several bookmarked, but I'm not very successful with them.
> Thanks.
> 
> Dotan Cohen

Atached my own script. Should give you a start.

The target for the backup is /mnt/backup and you should replace USER
with the name of your real username.

After that you fiddle a little with paths but then it should smoothly
like here.

;)

bye Thilo

PS... ist GPL.  hehe, which means if you improve it let me know.
- --
i am on Ubuntu 2.6 KDE
- - some friend of mine

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