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

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

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On 17 August 2010 00:37, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Monday 16 August 2010 11:30:36 Nganon wrote:
> > 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><
> nganon%2Bgentoo@gmail.com <nganon%252Bgentoo@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.
>
> Not sure if it's in an overlay, but I don't think it's in portage.
>
> Its not in the protage, I found a ebuild proposal at bugs.gentoo but it
didnt even make it to sunrise.

Run eix -l backup and see how many back up tools and scripts pop up.
>
> I know there are dozens of them in the portage. searching for backup
does not answer me 'you can do that by these packages'. Perhaps if NLP
is one day implemented in portage, usage of gentoo user lists will reduce
by half.

I have been using tar, star and rsync.  They all work and they can all make
> incremental back ups.  You'll find that a lot of the other 'smart' back up
> applications are based on these anyway.
>
> I will take a look at star, thanks.


HTH.
> --
> Regards,
> Mick
>

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