Re:[newbie] adding date to tar.jz file?
Thank you jon :) Buying your new service pack ... $70 Buying your high tech JAVA IDE .. $682 Writting your own backup_with_no_date_shell_script...Priceless for everything else... there is this NEWBIE LIST ;) okay lets make this a true low_noise_mailing list Can anybody add to/ modify this scrip to make it usefull for /home directory backing ? As jon judt warned us against using it for this specific purpos ? Regards All,,, - Hanan AL-Shargi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re:[newbie] adding date to tar.jz file?
On Wednesday 27 March 2002 09:26 am, Hanan Shargi opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: Thank you jon :) Buying your new service pack ... $70 Buying your high tech JAVA IDE .. $682 Writting your own backup_with_no_date_shell_script...Priceless for everything else... there is this NEWBIE LIST ;) LOL! okay lets make this a true low_noise_mailing list Can anybody add to/ modify this scrip to make it usefull for /home directory backing ? As jon judt warned us against using it for this specific purpos ? i may be wrong, but isn't the only reason not to use it for that purpose that it would backup itself? if so, simply backup to another folder/partition/whatever. /backup to an old harddrive is my own solution. -- If someone tells you they possess the truth, listen carefully. If they tell you they possess the *only* truth, run for your life. shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re:[newbie] adding date to tar.jz file?
boy do i feel sheepish. if you are running 8.2 try running drakbackup from command line. sheesh. darn easy to use mandrake distro. i am changing to slackware. On Tuesday 26 March 2002 05:30 pm, shane opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: On Wednesday 27 March 2002 09:26 am, Hanan Shargi opened a hailing frequency and transmitted: Thank you jon :) Buying your new service pack ... $70 Buying your high tech JAVA IDE .. $682 Writting your own backup_with_no_date_shell_script...Priceless for everything else... there is this NEWBIE LIST ;) LOL! okay lets make this a true low_noise_mailing list Can anybody add to/ modify this scrip to make it usefull for /home directory backing ? As jon judt warned us against using it for this specific purpos ? i may be wrong, but isn't the only reason not to use it for that purpose that it would backup itself? if so, simply backup to another folder/partition/whatever. /backup to an old harddrive is my own solution. -- 'Tis some script kidd3z, I muttered, tapping at my server port- Only this, and nothing more. - Edgar root Poe. shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
