[sllug-members]: easy backups

[James Helsby]

If you are using gnome, you can try simple-backup 
http://sbackup.sourceforge.net/HomePage.

I use it on my home box, doing daily incrementals and weekly full 
backups to tarballs on an remote system using SSH (sftp). works wonderfully.

Steve Dibb wrote:
> Can someone help me out with doing some backups?  First of all, I 
> looked for some *simple* scripts, but I still couldn't find anything 
> that suits my purpose, and man tar isn't helping too much either.
>
> My situation is this: I have a large directory of all different kinds 
> of files that I want to backup on a regular basis.  Some (*.txt) I 
> want to backup daily.  Some, I want to backup weekly, and the rest 
> monthly.
>
> Now, from what I can tell, tar has --exclude options, but only does 
> basic wildcard pattern matching (*.foo), but it has no --include 
> options.  So how could I tell it to backup just all (*.txt) files, 
> aside from excluding every other possible file ending in the directory?
>
> Steve
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