[KLUG Members] Incrimental backup of one drive to the other.

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> > I would like to do a simple incrimental backup w/compression of one drive to
> > another.  Does any one have any sugested scripts or programs.
> I just started trying this.  Seems to work o.k.  It makes an incremental
> backup by referring to a file of all the previous files and dates.  If a
> file is new or newer, it adds it to the backup.  Command should be all
> on one line.

Just as an aside, you can split this over multiple lines -
tar --create \
    --listed-incremental=/usr/local/bin/usr-var.snar \
    /dirtobackup \
    -f /location/of/backup/file.tar

This often results in something much easier to read.
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