Re: Recursively Backup Directories

2008-04-07 Thread Aahz
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jorgen Grahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I believe it is better to write a script which drives a widely known >and well-tested copying utility. On Unix these include tar, cpio and >rsync -- don't know which ones are common under DOS (xcopy?) Just use pax (I haven

Re: Recursively Backup Directories

2008-04-06 Thread Jorgen Grahn
On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 16:56:31 -0700 (PDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am writing a script that will backup specified folders from one hard > drive to another (for example, backup source "C:\DATA", destination "D: > \Backup"), and was thinking of using shutil. I'd avoid doing t

Re: Recursively Backup Directories

2008-04-05 Thread Rick Dooling
On Apr 5, 6:56 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What I would like to do > is recursively backup the specified directories . . . > but be able to specify exclusion directories (which copytree does > not appear to allow you to do). My initial thoughts were I'll > probably have to use os.path.walk for

Re: Recursively Backup Directories

2008-04-05 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Sat, 05 Apr 2008 20:56:31 -0300, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > I am writing a script that will backup specified folders from one hard > drive to another (for example, backup source "C:\DATA", destination "D: > \Backup"), and was thinking of using shutil. What I would like to do > is recursiv

Recursively Backup Directories

2008-04-05 Thread misceverything
I am writing a script that will backup specified folders from one hard drive to another (for example, backup source "C:\DATA", destination "D: \Backup"), and was thinking of using shutil. What I would like to do is recursively backup the specified directories (which copytree will do), but be able