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| tar does incremental backups, wouldn't something like a timer applet be able to be configured to fire off a tar command? Or maybe use the at daemon?
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| mmmna wrote: | | tar does incremental backups, wouldn't something like a timer applet be able to be configured to fire off a tar command? Or maybe use the at daemon? |
I can't use something like a timer as I'm backing up my laptop to an external drive which isn't always attached. So what I want is something I can run when I connect the drive.
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| Write a small bash script that runs as a daily / weekly CRON job? You could have it check if the external hard drive is connected (grep the /etc/mtab file for the mount point) and if so, continue with a file copy or incremental tar or rsync or whatever.
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| VHockey86 wrote: | | Write a small bash script that runs as a daily / weekly CRON job? You could have it check if the external hard drive is connected (grep the /etc/mtab file for the mount point) and if so, continue with a file copy or incremental tar or rsync or whatever. |
That was one of my thoughts but as I have never written anything like that I put the idea to one side.
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Huh? Here is the end of my "man tar":
| Code: | AUTHOR
Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <[email protected]>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the
terms of the GNU General Public License
<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. There is NO WARRANTY, to the
extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for tar is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If
the info and tar programs are properly installed at your site, the com‐
mand
info tar
should give you access to the complete manual.
tar 1.16 October 2025 TAR(1) |
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| I dunno, JP, as Konqueror renders the two the same.
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Must be SeaMonkey then ... I see | JP wrote: | Your post reminded me that I wanted to back up my system, so I got to looking into that. Maybe one of these will help you as well.
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| richard quoting me wrote: | Your post reminded me thate a look at them lat I wanted to back up my system, so I got to looking into that. Maybe one of these will help you as well.
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| correction, JP, I was just reading too fast--- it is rendered differently.
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I have had a look at several programs but they all seem to create an archive and all I want is to automate the copying process without creating an archive. Also after creating the initial backup I I want to just backup any new files or files that have been changed since the last backup.
I no sickum about archiving with tar, so I did a "man tar". This is at the end:
I wonder what happened there? I'd better look back and see if my quotes of others has done the same thing