Backup directories with space in directory name

Tony Arnold tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk
Sat Dec 31 20:10:01 UTC 2016


Jack,

On Sat, 2016-12-31 at 12:07 -0600, Jack McGee wrote:
> On 12/31/2016 10:28 AM, Jack McGee wrote:> > 


No, I don't really want to backup the whole disc.  I know there are no 
guarantees unless I do backup whole disc, but this subset will be good 
enough I think.

> And I'll add, that is not the main use case for this.  This is for when 
> I accidentally delete a file or otherwise hose my system.  It's a go 
> back in time, and I can restore just the file(s) I want, not the whole di
> 

You could also consider packages such as 'backintime' or 'sbackup'. I
use 'backintime' for the use case above.

Regards,
Tony.
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