From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Sep 14 5:43:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C31737B423 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 05:43:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA32714; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 14:42:24 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: j mckitrick Cc: cjclark@alum.mit.edu, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: unrelated: mountpoints and backup strategies References: <20000911145420.B69890@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000911231140.F69158@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> <20000914040207.A3311@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000913222743.O69158@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> <20000914125639.A7819@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 14 Sep 2000 14:42:23 +0200 In-Reply-To: j mckitrick's message of "Thu, 14 Sep 2000 12:56:39 +0100" Message-ID: Lines: 11 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org j mckitrick writes: > Ah, I finally discovered that caveat. Too bad, the incremental backup > concept had me intrigued. Oh, well. I went back to tar and it did > surprisingly well. I'll stick with that. Now I'll just have an excuse for > learning shell scripting and perl to make the incremental function work. Alternatively, you could RTFM (in this case, 'man tar'). DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message