[lug] I need help from a bash scripting guru

Paul E Condon pecondon at mesanetworks.net
Mon Jan 7 12:06:29 MST 2008


On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 10:01:58PM -0700, Bruce Raup wrote:
> Paul,
> 
> I don't know the direct answer to your question, but have you looked
> into rsync to do the backups?  It might obviate your current problem,
> as it produces lists of files it copies.
> 
> Bruce
> 
> -- 
> Bruce Raup
> http://cires.colorado.edu/~braup/

I've looked at the man page. There is no mention of something like the
--backup= option in cp. Without such it doesn't work for me.

Thanks.
-- 
Paul E Condon           
pecondon at mesanetworks.net



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