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From: Nganon <nganon+gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to build a time machine on Gentoo
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:31:18
Message-Id: AANLkTi=HcNBqbvKCz9YipZjuyhyjQNvyLJ9s-FsGrf4L@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How to build a time machine on Gentoo by Marco
1 On 16 August 2010 11:36, Marco <listworks@×××××.com> wrote:
2
3 > On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Nganon <nganon+gentoo@×××××.com<nganon%2Bgentoo@×××××.com>>
4 > wrote:
5 > > [...]
6 > > Here is what I wanna do. I want to have only one big backup for, say,
7 > > userA-2010.08.07.tgz and other small backup tars containing only the
8 > > files/folders that were modified since last update, 2010.08.07, as
9 > > userA-diff-2010.08.14.tgz, userA-diff-2010.08.21.tgz,
10 > > userA-diff-2010.08.28.tgz
11 > > etc. Now if I want to take the userA back to the future, 2010.08.21, I
12 > want
13 > > to
14 > > do it by first extracting the huge tar userA-2010.08.07.tgz and then the
15 > > tiny
16 > > backup userA-diff-2010-08-21.tgz.
17 >
18 > backup2l can do exactly what you want:
19 >
20 > http://backup2l.sourceforge.net/
21 >
22 >
23 Nice one indeed. Exactly does what I want. It is also good that the backups
24 can be use without the program itself.
25
26 It does not seem to be updated since 2009 but I will give it a try.
27
28 Thanks

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