Using Find to Locate and Report on Large Files | Linux Today

Using Find to Locate and Report on Large Files

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 16, 2007

[ Thanks to Ross
Brunson
for this link. ]

“Backups are essential, and so is the reducing the time
needed to perform those backups. Many’s the time I have sat waiting
for a backup to complete only to remember that I had a link to a
large set of files, or a bunch of ISO files in the ./download
directory, and had to migrate those over to somewhere else and
restart the backup.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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