Hello Shaggy , Look at rsync , works beautifully for me . JimL http://rsync.samba.org/index.html
On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Shaggy Im-erbtham wrote: > I use Slackware 7.0 with upgraded 2.4.18 kernel in a box which serves > as file server to 5 win9x clients. > > Is there a method to perform incremental back-ups for every user, for > every day of the week. > > Eg. /home/peter > /home/paul > /home/mary > > to be backed up everyday into day-of-the-week directories > so on Monday, files that were updated today would be copied to > each user's sub-directory in the monday directory. > /mnt/1monday/peter > /mnt/1monday/paul > /mnt/1monday/mary > > and so on > /mnt/2tuesday/peter > /mnt/2tuesday/paul > /mnt/2tuesday/mary > > Sometimes we need to track the daily changes that are made, that's > why. > > I'm aware RAID is available but I think this is another thing altogether. > > TIA > Shaggy > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs > -- +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | James W. Laferriere | System Techniques | Give me VMS | | Network Engineer | P.O. Box 854 | Give me Linux | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Coudersport PA 16915 | only on AXP | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs