Subject: Re: Simple Backup Script
To: NetBSD Users <netbsd-users@NetBSD.org>
From: Aaron J. Grier <agrier@poofygoof.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 12/30/2004 22:05:11
On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 09:24:10PM -0500, Brian Rose wrote:
> I'm looking to backup my Samba share onto an external FAT32 drive. Is
> there a relatively simple way to do incremental backups? Basically if
> a file is changed or added, I want the script to copy only the changed
> or added files to an identical tree on the external drive.

assuming the shared files are on an ffs partition, you could dump(8) to
a file on the FAT32 partition.

pax and tar can also do what you want.

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