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Re: Backup & Permissions Questions

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Old 01-17-2008, 07:04 AM
Nico Kadel-Garcia
 
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Default Re: Backup & Permissions Questions

Brad S wrote:

> Does anyone or know of scripts/methods for backing up directories on a
> linux machine to a windows machine? Also Is there anyway to have a
> file change its status to read only after it hasn't been modified for
> x amount of days?
>
> Thanks Again for All the Great Advice.


Transmit a gzipped tarball of the directory in question, or learn to use
SMB mounting if you don't care about symbolic links.

And yes, you can set a cron job to run the "find" command and detect all
such files and modify them as needed. A similar task is used to flush
the /tmp directory.

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