[sllug-members]: easy backups

[James Helsby]

oh, and an additional note.

--exclude in tar has been broken for a few years now in Fedora.
Check your distribution for good inclusion. I think it was broken in tar 
1.15 and later.

James Helsby wrote:
> 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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