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On Monday 16 August 2010 11:30:36 Nganon wrote: |
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> On 16 August 2010 11:36, Marco <listworks@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Nganon |
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> > <nganon+gentoo@×××××.com<nganon%2Bgentoo@×××××.com>> |
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> > |
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> > wrote: |
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> > > [...] |
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> > > Here is what I wanna do. I want to have only one big backup for, say, |
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> > > userA-2010.08.07.tgz and other small backup tars containing only the |
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> > > files/folders that were modified since last update, 2010.08.07, as |
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> > > userA-diff-2010.08.14.tgz, userA-diff-2010.08.21.tgz, |
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> > > |
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> > > userA-diff-2010.08.28.tgz |
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> > > |
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> > > etc. Now if I want to take the userA back to the future, 2010.08.21, I |
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> > want |
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> > > to |
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> > > do it by first extracting the huge tar userA-2010.08.07.tgz and then |
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> > > the tiny |
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> > > backup userA-diff-2010-08-21.tgz. |
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> > |
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> > backup2l can do exactly what you want: |
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> > |
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> > http://backup2l.sourceforge.net/ |
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> Nice one indeed. Exactly does what I want. It is also good that the backups |
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> can be use without the program itself. |
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> It does not seem to be updated since 2009 but I will give it a try. |
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Not sure if it's in an overlay, but I don't think it's in portage. |
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Run eix -l backup and see how many back up tools and scripts pop up. |
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I have been using tar, star and rsync. They all work and they can all make |
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incremental back ups. You'll find that a lot of the other 'smart' back up |
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applications are based on these anyway. |
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HTH. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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