Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi. Can someone tell me if the following script that i have made is a script for INCREMENTAL BACKUP or FULL BACKUP. My teacher told me that is doing an FULL BACKUP.


• find /etc /var /home -newer /backups/.backup_reference > /backups/.files_to_archive
• touch /backups/.backup_reference
• tar -zcvf /backups/incr/incr_backup-$(date +%F).tar.gz --files-from /backups/.files_to_archive



#!/bin/bash

echo "$(/bin/date +"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S") START backup incremental..."
/bin/find /etc /var /home -newer /backups/.backup_reference > /backups/.files_to_archive
/bin/touch /backups/.backup_reference
/bin/tar -zcvf /backups/incr/incr_backup-$(date +%F).tar.gz --files-from /backups/.files_to_archive
echo "$(/bin/date +"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S") FINISH backup incremental..."

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