On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Nganon <nganon+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > [...] > Here is what I wanna do. I want to have only one big backup for, say, > userA-2010.08.07.tgz and other small backup tars containing only the > files/folders that were modified since last update, 2010.08.07, as > userA-diff-2010.08.14.tgz, userA-diff-2010.08.21.tgz, > userA-diff-2010.08.28.tgz > etc. Now if I want to take the userA back to the future, 2010.08.21, I want > to > do it by first extracting the huge tar userA-2010.08.07.tgz and then the > tiny > backup userA-diff-2010-08-21.tgz.
backup2l can do exactly what you want: http://backup2l.sourceforge.net/ HTH! -- Marco