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david.woodruff@divadtech.com.au (David Woodruff) writes:

> On Mon, 12 May 1997 18:53:08 +0930, luke <luke@chipcity.com.au> wrote:
> 
> >second hdd. I want to tar my whole system to the second hard drive.
> >Can anyone tell me how to do it?
> >
> >Then I want to do a find for the files that have been added daily or
> >weekly and tar them as well,
> >Anyone know how?
> 
> Ummm, "man tar"??? tar -zcvf to compress, tar -zxvfp to restore?

Erm. Looking at my tar manpage, that don't help. Doesn't mention anything
about going between disks/filesystems.


Something approaching this is probably what you want:

[DISCLAIMER: if you haven't read and understood the manpage, it's your
	     problem]


>su
Password:*************
# (cd /; tar clBf - . ) | (cd /drive2/; tar xBf -)
#

The l flag allegedly does local filesystems only. Dunno whether that 
means disks mounted on the root fs or not. Bueller?

Part II of the question is a straight from the manpage response. 

Write a little script that does the find using the -newer flag and then
touches a file that you then use to feed find next time around. 

You can use -fprint _file_ to output the files that are picked up in the find
to generate a logfile/workfile.

Check your man pages a little closer and you'll see lots of cool stuff that
you can use. Also consider learning Perl to ease your load.

Cheers

Saundo
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Technical Support Engineer      Telephone: (08) 8379 7333
		Maptek Pty Ltd - Adelaide