In that instance, you can always unpack an archive into a temporary directory and just copy across the directories or files that you want restored.
On 7 October 2015 at 20:42, Peter Merchant <madsmad...@netscape.net> wrote: > That's one other criteria I forgot to mention. I don't really want all the > files zipped up. I like to be able to see that they are all there and to > pull back any that I should need for whatever reason. I guess that I am a > bit worried that I could have a situation where I can't undo a tarball or > image. > > [ I have just finished sorting out a neighbours backup where his whole xp > system was imaged on his backup and he wanted to restore just his data onto > his new W10 computer] > > Peter > > On 07/10/15 19:30, Simon Avery wrote: > >> Hi Peter, >> >> Backup-manager is excellent at creating sequential gzipped tarballs of >> directories and managing their expirations. It's also good at mysql dump >> archives too, if that's relevant to you. >> >> That would be my recommendation - although note that because it's a >> sequential tarballer (it'll do that over rsync if you need), it won't only >> copy the files that have changed. >> >> For that, backuppc is another excellent tool that I use heavily. It will >> do that and pool the files between as many clients as you have, which means >> there's only ever one copy of any unique file no matter how many times it >> occurs on different machines, but will manage different versions with >> ease.. Between them they manage almost every use-case I encounter, >> including backing up windows clients, servers, linux clients, file servers, >> whatever. >> >> Hope that's useful >> >> S >> >> On 7 October 2015 at 19:21, Peter Merchant <madsmad...@netscape.net >> <mailto:madsmad...@netscape.net>> wrote: >> >> Hi, I have been looking for a means of formalising my backup >> procedures. At the moment on my USB 500Tb Backup drive I have >> three sets of folders: >> >> D-2015-Mo-dy From Downstairs XP machine Data partititon >> U-2015-Mo-dy from upstairs kubuntu /home partition >> Pictures Pictures and photos combined from both D & U >> >> The Pictures folder already exists, but the others would have to >> be created by the script or manually beforehand. >> >> What I would like to do is backup the Kubuntu machine /home >> contents to a base U-2015-Mo-Dy folder, including hidden files, >> but Excepting the My Pictures folder. >> >> Similarly for the XP machine. >> >> Then update the Pictures folder with any and all updates and >> changed files. >> >> Second stage is to more frequently run an incremental backup of >> all changes and updates on the Kubuntu box to a separate folder, >> perhaps U-2015-mo-dy-topup. This to be followed by, or performed >> separately for a backup of pictures. >> >> Is this possible? It looked very difficult to learn how to use >> rsync to do it, so I thought I might try grsync. >> >> If grsync creates the scripts that can be run by rsync, can I then >> in the future run those scripts without the GUI? >> >> Thanks for any help or advice. >> >> Peter M. >> >> >> >> -- >> Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2015-11-03 20:00 >> Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ >> New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk >> <mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk> / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING >> Reporting bugs well: http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST OR THE >> AUTHOR >> >> >> > -- > Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2015-11-03 20:00 > Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ > New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING > Reporting bugs well: http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST OR THE AUTHOR > -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2015-11-03 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING Reporting bugs well: http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST OR THE AUTHOR
