On Sat, Mar 09, 2013 at 02:04:05AM +0100, Holger Parplies wrote: Hello again!
> Hi, > > Peter Carlsson wrote on 2013-03-08 23:21:38 +0100 [[BackupPC-users] Archiving > incremental backups?]: > > Hello! > > > > Is it possible to archive only the incremental part of a backup? > > no, I don't think that is supported, and I also don't think it is a good > idea :-). > > > I would like to make a tar archive only of the files that is part of an > > incremental backup. > > What exactly are you trying to achieve? You are describing the wrong step > toward an unknown goal. We can't give you good advice without knowing what > you want to do. I regulary do an archive to a USB HDD that I store offsite. This is a manual step since I have to bring the HDD, do the archiving, and then store the HDD offsite again. To know for sure that files that are modified in between these regular archives, I want to make tar archives of the incremental backups and move them on a daily basis offsite over the Internet. Why I only want to do this for the incremental backuped files is to reduce the amount of data over the Internet. > In short, a tar file of a full backup + one (or more) tar files of incremental > backups *do not* equal a snapshot of your source file system at the point of > the last incremental, simply because you lose all information about files > being deleted (a tar file cannot represent files that are supposed to be > deleted on extraction, as far as I know). Of course, you might not have this > information in your BackupPC history, if you are using tar or smb transport, > but you can fix that by switching to rsync(d), and your archives will still > only be tar files. That's a good point. But what I want to achieve is, at least in my opinion, better than to only have the full manual archives that at best will be done one or two times a month. Maybe there is a better solution, that someone can recommend. The most important thing is that it is simple and automatic, otherwise it will never be done. Best regards, Peter Carlsson ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 positioned as A LEADER in The Forrester Wave(TM): Endpoint Security, Q1 2013 and "remains a good choice" in the endpoint security space. For insight on selecting the right partner to tackle endpoint security challenges, access the full report. http://p.sf.net/sfu/symantec-dev2dev _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
