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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting [bash] Simple backup (cp) script but incremental Post 302345427 by laurens on Wednesday 19th of August 2009 08:18:59 AM
Old 08-19-2009
Thanks for the replies, I am indeed familiar with cp and its options, like recursive. Having the verbose options print all the copied files would be nice in my case.
Like you said it is maybe better to not use cp; but cpio instead.
The only problem I experience now is that it doesn't copy recursive. (but only the single file in /home ; not the folders) Is there a solution to this?

Thanks in advance
 

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