Subj : Re: Tar backup script
To   : Rick Smith
From : Nigel Reed
Date : Thu Dec 10 2020 04:49:00

Rick wrote:
> Greetings All!
> 
> I am finally getting around to making backups of all my machines and I have a nifty script that does in fact work as I intended..  It could be better tho.. My question is can I set the two backup directories?  So when the backup runs it copies the tar to a backup dir local, but I want it to also copy it to a mounted nfs drive, without running the backup twice if that is possible?
> 
> #!/bin/bash 
> rm -rf ~/.local/share/Trash/* 
> DATE=$(date +%d-%m-%Y) BACKUP_DIR="/z/backups" #BACKUP_DIR2="/home/fido/backup" #To backup fido's home directory cd /home/fido tar  --exclude="/home/fido/Downloads" --exclude="/home/fido/backup" --exclude="/home/fido/.cache" --exclude="/home/fid>
> #tar  --exclude="/home/fido/Downloads" --exclude="/home/fido/backup" --exclude="/home/fido/.cache" --exclude="/home/fi> 
> The second tar line that is commented out is the nfs drive I would also like the backup to go to, is there a way I guess to incorporate both destinations in one command line?

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and I usually send the author a donation when it has bailed me out.

Support is via mailing list and the author is responsive to support requests.

Personally, I have a cheap storage server on another continent so I can be
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https://burp.grke.org

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