dan wrote:
> I have sent this to users once, I decided to send it to devel and users
> this time as i think it is a usefull feature
>
> I would like to be able to convert a backup from an incremental to a
> full. Im not sure if just changing the entry in the backups file from
> inc to full will work or not but i would like to suggest a method of
> doing this from the CGI.
>
> anyone know if it will work just changing the type in the backups file?
The problem you'll have to solve is that incrementals rely on the
previous full directory trees for copies of older files. I suspect that
if you try to pretend that it really is a full, the full that actually
holds most of the data you want will be allowed to expire. You'd need a
way to create a 'filled' incremental and I don't think that option
actually works. A brute-force approach would be to use
Backup_tarCreate to extract an image of the day you want, restore it
somewhere, then back that up again using a different name and the alias
feature. There's probably a much more efficient way to get the same
effect, though.
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Les Mikesell
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