Backup and entire dir using tar?

[Martijn van de Streek]

On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Sean Miller wrote:

> Personally I'd send it to a file...
> 
> tar cvf x.tar /myfiles >/tmp/backup.log 2>&1
> 
> ...then I'd look for the errors manually *and* keep a log of my backup !
> 
> :-)

How about this one:

tar cvf x.tar /myfiles 2>&1 | tee /tmp/backup.log | less

Martijn
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