[Novalug] scp : skip xy.z??

[Tux Subscriber Dave Aronson]

Beartooth <beartooth at beartooth.info> wrote:

>        I don't see a skip command on man:scp
>
>        Is there some slick trick?

You could create a tarball of the stuff you want to back up, using
either command line args or a file (so you don't have to remember them
all) to say what to skip.  Something like:

tar zcvf /tmp/backup-2009-05-31.tgz ~ -X ~/.nobak

where ~/.nobak would list files you don't want to back up.  Then just
scp the resulting tarball, which would be faster anyway (and take up
less space on the far end) due to the "z" meaning "gzip it" (and the
unification meaning no end-of-cluster waste).  I've done this to back
up many projects at work, between CM checkins (or on projects too
stupidly managed to have CM).

-Dave

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