recursion limits

[Stephen Barncard]

Chris, you might find a thread on this board in the last year about 
"Directory Walker" scripts interesting -- several folks doing what 
you describe: traversing an entire volume...


At 3:02 PM -0600 8/3/05, Chris Sheffield wrote:
>Thanks, Pierre, but I don't think that's quite what I'm after.  My 
>backup program won't be something that will run consistently for 
>weeks at a time.  I'm talking about recursion as in calling the same 
>handler/function from within itself.  I'm guessing there could be 
>issues with this if the folder to back up has a large directory 
>structure, as in many sub folders and files.