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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!overload.lbl.gov!ames!koriel!male.EBay.Sun.COM!engnews1.Eng.Sun.COM!engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM!orpheus!jackv From: jackv@orpheus.Eng.Sun.COM (Jack F. Vogel) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Selective tar-ing... Date: 11 Sep 1994 07:13:48 GMT Organization: Sun Lines: 23 Message-ID: <34uanc$af5@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> References: <34u3h4$c9l@sundog.tiac.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: orpheus.eng.sun.com In article <34u3h4$c9l@sundog.tiac.net> mcgovern@spoon.beta.com (Brian McGovern) writes: |I was wondering if there was a way to have tar archive only files that have |changed since a certain date, or that have been modified since a prior tar-ing. |The reason is that I wish to use my tape drive (250 MB Jumbo on a 500MB |Seagate IDE drive), and I'd like to automate the process for late night. Right |now, its not a problem, because I'm using like %20 percent of my space, and |a full backup easily on a tape. However, as the system grows, and I go over |250MB of data, I'd like to be able to run monitored full backups, and then |have it do selectives automatically at night. Sure, its do-able, just have to muck about with find(1) to create the list, then pass that to tar. However, it would be a LOT easier to use dump(8), its designed for just this kind of issue. Either case will take some 'dinking around' however :-). Have fun! -- Jack F. Vogel Sun Microsystems Inc. jackv@Sun.COM