Re: [gentoo-user] How to build a time machine on Gentoo

[Nganon <nganon+gentoo@gmail.com>]

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On 16 August 2010 11:36, Marco <listworks@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Nganon <nganon+gentoo@gmail.com<nganon%2Bgentoo@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/
>
>
Nice one indeed. Exactly does what I want. It is also good that the backups
can be use without the program itself.

It does not seem to be updated since 2009 but I will give it a try.

Thanks

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