From: Nick Murtagh (murtaghn at domain tcd.ie)
Date: Tue 16 Apr 2002 - 11:00:37 IST
On Monday 15 April 2002 21:24, Conor Daly wrote:
> You mean like
>
> cp /backup/home.snar.full /backup/home.snar
> tar --create \
> --gzip \
> --file=/backup/incr/home_`date "+%Y%m%d%H%M%S"`.tar.gz \
> --label="`hostname` /home `date +%Y-%m-%d`" \
> --listed-incremental=/backup/home.snar \
> --exclude="/home/brendan/ftp_temp/*" \
> /home/;
>
> or does that defeat the "only use tar" idea?
It's not the right kind of backup. Brendan was looking for
differential backups: make a full backup, and then do regular backups
of all the changes since the last full backup. Which means that
restoring involves dealing with a maximum of two backups.
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