Re: incomplete back-ups

grace <zympoul@xxxxxxxxx>:

i've been creating back-ups of our files every night through cron jobs
and my script
for this is like this:

0 21 * * 1 sudo cp -r /home /db/home_bu/mon

Further to my other reply, you might want to use instead:

cp -rp ...

so the resultant copies will have the same ownerships, protections,
and timestamps as the originals. This is very important should you
ever get into doing incremental backups (another way to minimize the
size of the resultant backup archive).


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