Re: [cobalt-developers] Ideal backup method

["David Smulsky" <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

somethings wacky, cause i know within those 10 minuutes that i ran it twice,
no why 200meg coulda changed :-)

so your saying that really it should only be ran once a day, otherwise i
will get wacky results..

if its gunna write an increment, i will make the datestamped file have -inc-
somewhere, that way if i do run it twice in one day, it wont overwrite the
first one.. and perhaps instead of just a "day" timestamp, make
it -year-month-day- for historical purposes.. other then that, the script is
awesome, looks good, and obvioulsy is easy to maintain :)

now we will work on a web frontend port in PHP, that will log backup
information in a mysql database? you up for it? :) start the sourceforge
account! :)

David Smulsky
dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.thehostworks.com
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Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 12:50 PM
Subject: RE: [cobalt-developers] Ideal backup method


-----Original Message-----
From: David Smulsky [mailto:dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Subject: Re: [cobalt-developers] Ideal backup method


heheh yeah

also, when i ran it twice in a row, my homes was a 500meg tar.. then the
second time it was only 200.. wanna give me some insight on to why that
happened?? thanks

David Smulsky

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The way that is it supposed to work.

1st you run it - full backup of files & folders

if day = Monday -> Saturday then
just backup the files that have been changed

if day = sunday then
full back up

if day (#) of month = 1 then
full back up.

It is called an incremental backup ... why you had strange results. I don't
know, works on mine, and a few others I have it on.

You need to delete the files if you plan on playing with it, other then that
if you are downloading stuff, it is only going to backup the new stuff
downloaded.
Or in theory, that is how it should work.

I am not a bash code, I like PHP or Perl, but free is free.

~Brian.

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