From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] new machine: incremental back-ups
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2012 13:53:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121004135356.4e21a1d0@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <506D7651.8050805@hadt.biz>
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On Thu, 04 Oct 2012 13:43:13 +0200, Michael Hampicke wrote:
> Hm, dar looks interesting. I'll have a look at it. The man page states
> that it is possible to restore individual files from an dar archive
> without reading the complete file (in contrast to tar). Is this also
> true when using compression and/or encryption? Would be a great feature
> for fast single file restores (Just mount the offsite location with
> sshfs or similar and tell dar to restore file25 from my 500GB backup
> without having to transfer the whole damn thing :) )
The way I do it is to use the split feature to split the archive into
manageable chunks. It helps when an upload fails and when restoring you
just grab the catalog, try to restore from that and it tells you which
file(s) it needs.
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Neil Bothwick
People who eat natural foods die from natural causes.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-04 12:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-04 6:38 [gentoo-user] new machine: incremental back-ups Philip Webb
2012-10-04 8:25 ` Michael Hampicke
2012-10-04 10:37 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-10-04 11:43 ` Michael Hampicke
2012-10-04 12:53 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2012-10-04 10:19 ` William Kenworthy
2012-10-04 15:22 ` Paul Hartman
2012-10-04 16:58 ` Doug Hunley
2012-10-05 14:28 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2012-10-06 0:49 ` Philip Webb
2012-10-06 9:22 ` Helmut Jarausch
2012-10-06 11:59 ` Stefan Schmiedl
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