From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ol7Ny-0000Bf-LN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 21:38:29 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C8B16E0897; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 21:38:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C47FE0897 for ; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 21:38:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyf28 with SMTP id 28so7545766wyf.40 for ; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:38:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=Mdjss+OSkcFGgOUU1TvNyqQxFZ6WOPbjyhzSOn3+GfA=; b=saKxQ1+1EyYmQ6bo/j/1b0fSyTc2932Qh5F9erg45vzem4WlAD4NoKG9yjb2cvIdpN Tdq79W1tX6hc1xSMJxAdnMRVE018z4nUtEaO3+z/n17ARMMTRijxnfk7w5yH3PJ0x4My lFKWZYjQleeLesx+/SA/DBk5FrP1BnnOFXR+8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=btvI5uuQarYIqS/OGh1tfGV4ZAcldaioLOUNE88CFBaddcFM3Jw4zzfPdMrgOvoDvX gOZB/6EKZakeC6OvWACnAYvnpZ7wzmUHKL3DP777iWHufLWy2Y9Sq/7OyhypRxboDjdl L0I5a/vPCbsthL6b1stpKyVGabNRvDfswH8KI= Received: by 10.227.157.70 with SMTP id a6mr4821392wbx.163.1281994681843; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:38:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id a1sm5804267wbb.14.2010.08.16.14.38.00 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:38:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to build a time machine on Gentoo Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 22:37:48 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.34-gentoo-r1; KDE/4.4.5; x86_64; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1934069.DiI6e2C6z9"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201008162237.59827.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 50736830-41fc-4c5a-b18f-303cf941f728 X-Archives-Hash: 333d83afef37c8e332de537e20a82d92 --nextPart1934069.DiI6e2C6z9 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Monday 16 August 2010 11:30:36 Nganon wrote: > On 16 August 2010 11:36, Marco wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Nganon > > > > >=20 > > 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, > > >=20 > > > userA-diff-2010.08.28.tgz > > >=20 > > > etc. Now if I want to take the userA back to the future, 2010.08.21, = I > >=20 > > want > >=20 > > > 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. > >=20 > > backup2l can do exactly what you want: > >=20 > > http://backup2l.sourceforge.net/ >=20 > Nice one indeed. Exactly does what I want. It is also good that the backu= ps > can be use without the program itself. >=20 > It does not seem to be updated since 2009 but I will give it a try. Not sure if it's in an overlay, but I don't think it's in portage. Run eix -l backup and see how many back up tools and scripts pop up. I have been using tar, star and rsync. They all work and they can all make= =20 incremental back ups. You'll find that a lot of the other 'smart' back up= =20 applications are based on these anyway. HTH. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart1934069.DiI6e2C6z9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkxpr7cACgkQVTDTR3kpaLaqawCfW1J0XvKWz2MmQ4q1d5O42rKM cMUAoMhPcaWZvZd9HsI19nUrsBRyEObZ =qahh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1934069.DiI6e2C6z9--