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On 17 August 2010 00:37, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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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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> nganon%2Bgentoo@×××××.com <nganon%252Bgentoo@×××××.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, |
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> 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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> > > 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 |
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> 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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> Its not in the protage, I found a ebuild proposal at bugs.gentoo but it |
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didnt even make it to sunrise. |
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Run eix -l backup and see how many back up tools and scripts pop up. |
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> I know there are dozens of them in the portage. searching for backup |
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does not answer me 'you can do that by these packages'. Perhaps if NLP |
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is one day implemented in portage, usage of gentoo user lists will reduce |
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by half. |
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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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> I will take a look at star, thanks. |
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HTH. |
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> -- |
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> Regards, |
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> Mick |
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