Re: using make for backups

[Harvey Chapman]

On Aug 24, 2009, at 10:20 AM, CHEN Cheng wrote:
> Another way to do backup can be `git', which manages Linux kernel  
> (300MB+),
> although far less than 2Gb, but it's fast.

In my case, git wouldn't be an option. My directories are already  
under source control. My make process tar-gz's the directories to  
speed up builds. Other projects that need those directories, just pick  
the TGZ files they need and uncompress them into a common directory. I  
use them to build small embedded Linux filesystems. I was just looking  
for a way to keep the directories expanded for source control, to  
archive them as part of the build, and finally, to get make to update  
the archives whenever the files change. I think the $(shell find...)  
approach will work for me since my files are rather small (~11 MB).

Harvey