Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com From: ericblake@comcast.net (Eric Blake) To: Christian Buhtz , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: scriptlanguage for a backupscript? Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 16:28:13 +0000 Message-Id: <092220051628.22627.4332DB9D000D8E480000586322007510900A050E040D0C079D0A@comcast.net> > I want to write my own backupscript. > > - I will backup from some local harddrives to a NAS available as a > sambaserver. > - I will copy, write, delte files. > - I will check size of a file and a directory. > > Which scriptlanguage is the easiest for this? tar already provides /usr/sbin/backup - you may want to look at that as a good starting point (in fact, it probably already does everything you want). -- Eric Blake volunteer cygwin tar maintainer -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/