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From: Marco <listworks@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to build a time machine on Gentoo
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:38:03
Message-Id: AANLkTinKbNf3a07u2LJKJJD3go6KM=wsrBXCHyZjX392@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] How to build a time machine on Gentoo by Nganon
1 On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Nganon <nganon+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > [...]
3 > Here is what I wanna do. I want to have only one big backup for, say,
4 > userA-2010.08.07.tgz and other small backup tars containing only the
5 > files/folders that were modified since last update, 2010.08.07, as
6 > userA-diff-2010.08.14.tgz, userA-diff-2010.08.21.tgz,
7 >  userA-diff-2010.08.28.tgz
8 > etc. Now if I want to take the userA back to the future, 2010.08.21,  I want
9 > to
10 > do it by first extracting the huge tar userA-2010.08.07.tgz and then the
11 > tiny
12 > backup userA-diff-2010-08-21.tgz.
13
14 backup2l can do exactly what you want:
15
16 http://backup2l.sourceforge.net/
17
18 HTH!
19
20 --
21 Marco

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Re: [gentoo-user] How to build a time machine on Gentoo Nganon <nganon+gentoo@×××××.com>