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colbert

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Registered: 2007-12-16

Posts: 809

Help to make script

I would like to run this command:

sudo rsync -avzp --progress --delete --exclude=/root --exclude=/var/tmp/kde* --exclude=/proc --exclude=/home --exclude=/media --exclude=/var/cache/pacman --exclude=/tmp/* --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=/var/backup --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/usr/man --exclude=/var/abs --exclude=/sys / /media/extra/backup/archbackup

But make a script so it asks me what the destination ("/media/extra/backup/archbackup" above) will be. Any help appreciated, thanks

Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

Posts: 11,487

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Re: Help to make script

You could make a bash script called "backup" and call it using "backup <directory>" and use

sudo rsync -avzp --progress --delete --exclude=/root --exclude=/var/tmp/kde* --exclude=/proc --exclude=/home --exclude=/media --exclude=/var/cache/pacman --exclude=/tmp/* --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=/var/backup --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/usr/man --exclude=/var/abs --exclude=/sys / $1

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Zepp

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From: Ontario, Canada

Registered: 2006-03-25

Posts: 334

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Re: Help to make script

Other option would be to just make a new alias for that command + options.

colbert

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Registered: 2007-12-16

Posts: 809

Re: Help to make script

Thank you, I added the alias to my .bashrc and now I can do:

archbackup /path/to/backup

and it works nice Thanks!!