Re: [tlug] Baby Steps for Command Line Backups

[Jim <jep200404@example.com>]

One baby step for Joe, one giant leap for Stephen. 

"Stephen J. Turnbull" wrote:

>     Jim> After super simple backups with cp, one should learn tar
>     Jim> next.
> 
> You mean like "tar -C here -cf - | tar -C there -xf -" instead of "cp
> -a here there"?

Nope. That's too complex. 

Start with the simple ...

   tar cvf foo.tar foodir/

... then progress to the complex. 

> You mean like "tar -C here -cf - | tar -C there -xf -" instead of "cp
> -a here there"?

You forgot tunneling through ssh to localhost. 

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In the molehill2san-1.0.1-fc6.rpm department, 
I'm surprised nobody chimed in with CVS and Subversion.