Has anybody written a routine that takes a complete series of incrementals (back to the full) - i.e. levels N, N-1, N-2,...,1,0 and then converts the level N incremental into a standalone full backup?
It shouldn't be too hard since the web browser interface for restoring files and the backuppc-fuse program essentially already do the combining. All one would have to add would be: 1. Merging/rewriting the attrib files 2. Perhaps some optimization of the merging 3. Edit to the 'backupInfo' file 'backups' folder to note the change from incremental to full 4. Anything else? I would find such a routine useful in the case where retrospectively you realize that you want to keep a particular backup for longer than the usual expire sequence and that backup happens not to be a full. For example, if you have a major change/upgrade/re-install that happens to fall on an incremental. Now of course you could always save the incremental plus its parents back to the last full but it would be nice if you could at any time retrospectively create a full that you would then save standalone. Now this again brings up the feature request from another poster to have a way to save 'forever' specific backups independent of the general expiry sequence. I had suggested post-pending a character to the backup number that would signal a saved backup and could easily be set/cleared by the user (Post-pending would preserve numerical order sorting better than pre-pending). In any case, has anybody written such a "merge" routine as described above? Jeff ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ 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/