Hi. What I do is use several small bash scripts that use rsync. Each mini script (one-liner) backs up a certain directory tree or a whole disk. They can be scheduled or run manually. So usually after I do my email I run that rsync script to backup my email client.
D:\backups>cat eudorabackup.sh echo backing up eudora... rsync -v -rlt --progress --ignore-errors --stats -i --delete /f/internet/eudora/ /d/backups/f_drive/internet/eudora This method is really portable across systems. U can backup to another disk or another machine running rsync, Windows or unix. One drawback to rsync though is that is doesn't handle Unicode file names or inherited permissions. Rsync is part of Cygwin. At 10:20 PM 8/22/2007 -0700, Suresh Govindachar wrote: >On Windows, if you have used perl to make periodic >back-ups of your hard-drives to CDs and/or other >hard-drives, would you please share your experience >(for example, what commands, modules and methods >worked and what didn't work)? Include, pros and cons >of >invoking native Windows' back-up commands v.s. >invoking unix-on-windows commands. -- REMEMBER THE WORLD TRADE CENTER ---=< WTC 911 >=-- "...ne cede malis" 00000100 _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
