tar --newer-mtime

Johan Booysen johan at matrix-data.co.uk
Sun Nov 25 18:59:35 UTC 2007


Dear all,

Apologies if this is a silly question, but it's important enough for me
to ask as a double-check:

I want to do a once-off "incremental backup" of a server, in such a way
that I create a tar archive of only data files that have been created or
have been modified since a defined date.

Will this do the trick, for example?

tar -cvf incremental.tar --newer-mtime "24 Now 2007" *

I.e. only tar up files that have been CREATED or MODIFIED since
24.11.2007...

Thanks.




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