Re: [tlug] Excluding File type in Shell Find

[Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com>]

Quoth Charles Muller (Sat 2003-04-05 03:55:07PM +0900):
>
> I have a shell script that I am using for incremental backups that  finds
> files 3 days old (or whatever), prints a list to a file, and makes a tar
> file based on that list. The script works fine, but I have been trying to
> add the condition of excluding other tar.gz files, without success.

Someone already answered your question, but here is another suggestion:

Check out rsync. It is the incremental backup-er's best friend, IME.

-Josh


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Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com>

Associate Systems Administrator
INCOGEN, Inc.
http://www.incogen.com/

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