Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 16:36:33 +0000 From: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: writing a backup script Message-ID: <20010313163632.A344@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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I'm getting my feet wet in some basic script writing with a nice little backup program. It's a script that does a full backup once a month, and an incremental in between. Basically, it looks on the zip disk for a tar file with this month in the title. If it doesn't find it, it does a backup of all the directories I have listed. Otherwise, it looks for a .levelX file, where X is the increment level. The .levelX file just contains the date of that incremental backup. Here is the problem: if there is a full backup for the month, but no .levelX file for some reason, I want it to revert to doing an incremental backup of everything changed since the full backup. What is a good way to do this? jm -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Jonathon McKitrick -- jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org To Microsoft: "Your tyranny I was part of, is now cracking on every side. Now your own life is in danger. Your Empire is on fire." Front 242 ------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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