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From: ericblake AT comcast DOT net (Eric Blake)
To: Christian Buhtz <yspam AT gmx DOT net>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT 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



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