[wellylug] Need advice on baking up files

Chris Hodgetts chris at archnetnz.com
Sat Mar 26 23:12:03 NZST 2005


I would use flexbackup.

Pete Black made comment about it in a previous post, and I have used it 
since he showed me it at previous employer, and I love it..

It works really well..



On Sat, 26 Mar 2005, Jamie Dobbs wrote:

> I would like to set up a simple "backup script" that will tar/gzip the 
> contents of the ~/Maildir directories of several users on one of my Linux 
> boxes.
> What is the best way to do this so that I preserve ownership/groups etc. so 
> that when I need to restore it is a trivial process? Keep in mind that each 
> ~/Maildir can have multiple hidden sub-directories.
>
> Cheers
>
> Jamie
>
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