Re: [flexbackup-help] incremental backups and deleted files
Thanks for your reply. I've been researching the problem since I was using tar and I thought this would be solved in recent backup utilities. It is not that difficult to implement, I can't believe that it has not been addressed. Thanks Pablo Charlie Brady wrote: On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Pablo Godel wrote: I am testing flexbackup. I've set type "star" and run the following command: flexbackup -set server Then, added a file, and run flexbackup -set server -incremental the new file appears in the incremental backup Then, I removed the file. When I extract the files from each backup file, I end up with the file that was deleted. AIUI, that's just how incremental backup/restore works. How can I get to delete those files that have been deleted in between incremental backups? I take it you mean "automatically". The incremental backup would also need to contain information about files which had been deleted since the previous incremental. That would mean that the file system would need to hold information about previously deleted files, which in general it doesn't. Or the backup system would need to take a snapshot of all the directories at each backup. -- Charlie --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 ___ flexbackup-help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flexbackup-help
Re: [flexbackup-help] incremental backups and deleted files
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Pablo Godel wrote: > I am testing flexbackup. I've set type "star" and run the following command: > > flexbackup -set server > > Then, added a file, and run > flexbackup -set server -incremental > > the new file appears in the incremental backup > > Then, I removed the file. > > When I extract the files from each backup file, I end up with the file > that was deleted. AIUI, that's just how incremental backup/restore works. > How can I get to delete those files that have been deleted in between > incremental backups? I take it you mean "automatically". The incremental backup would also need to contain information about files which had been deleted since the previous incremental. That would mean that the file system would need to hold information about previously deleted files, which in general it doesn't. Or the backup system would need to take a snapshot of all the directories at each backup. -- Charlie --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 ___ flexbackup-help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flexbackup-help
[flexbackup-help] incremental backups and deleted files
Hello, I am testing flexbackup. I've set type "star" and run the following command: flexbackup -set server Then, added a file, and run flexbackup -set server -incremental the new file appears in the incremental backup Then, I removed the file. When I extract the files from each backup file, I end up with the file that was deleted. How can I get to delete those files that have been deleted in between incremental backups? Thank you Pablo Godel --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 ___ flexbackup-help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flexbackup-help
