Thanks Cameron for your help. Both scripts are great, I'll try them today. One question, should I run them from the terminal, or from IDLE?
Paul; I was looking some of those programs you suggested, and of course some of them perform the task very well. I appreciate your help very much. I always take the time to check out the suggestions, but yesterday was a busy day, so I just looked at few descriptions, and of course I will check those 33 results, but scdbackup looks promissing. I had no time yesterday to check on Scott's webpage (or the man pages, yet) to try to understand how to use properly the tar command, I've had success when I follow instructions about how to untar a file, but that has been the most confusing term in my Linux history, The first time I tried, I was installing a new Linux system to one of my laptops, so I decided to backup all my files (nothing important, songs, pictures, a couple of presentations for conferences, videos, a lot of porn <----(this was a joke, I don't watch those things). So, there was just like 10 GB, and I proceeded to compress the folders, unsucessfully, so if the uncompressed folder was 1.2 GB in size, the compressed folder (.tar) was 1.2 GB too. Ok, never mind, I tried to uncompress it, simply it was not possible, and if double click on it, it just created another .tar.tar file. Of course I want to learn to use it, that's one of the reasons I belong to this group, and you're all very kind to help me. Too sad for me that most of the posts are from people with a problem with a Linux installation, or a device not working, and not with GNU/Linux commands or special features like "fdupes" to mention one (which comes very handy before backing up files), because I get a lot of information when an interesting question is posted. Sometimes it looks like an "End user" forum instead of a newbie forum. Why to reinvent the wheel? Well, in derivative calculi, the mathematicians say there are several ways to achieve the same result. It does no harm to try to get our intellect to do that extra mile, just to know if is it possible or not. Maybe I can't do it alone, that's why I asked for help. But of course I will do my homework and try to read man pages, forums, google sugestions, etc. And I'm sure, possible or not, I'll learn a lot of new things in the way to find that answer. Cameron's Python scripts for example; I'm not just going to try them out, I'm going to analize them too, and try to understand how they work (because I'm learning Python too). If you look at the story from the first post of this thread, to the last, there is a lot of new information, for me, and for all of us. If you look carefully, you'll see, that trying to reinvent the wheel, I will be able to learn how to use the tar command the proper way, to use multiple external hard disks and configure them to use them with Linux, to burn DVD's and CD's, even from command line, and I have now 33 more new options to backup my data. I'm happy [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
