Holger Parplies wrote at about 02:04:05 +0100 on Saturday, March 9, 2013: > 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. > > 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. >
However, if he is talking about 'tarring' the pc tree component for a BackupPC incremental backup, then the deletions are indeed encoded in the attrib files, though I am not sure how he would intend to reconstruct it all in practice without some code to glue it back together properly unless he is already has a copy of the fulls and is maintaining a full incremental chain... That being said, if that is what he means, he could just literally tar the incremental backup tree... however, he would still lose the pooling benefits... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/