On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 15:37, David Brown wrote: > <http://www.davidb.org/adump/incremental.html> describes the state of my > understanding of incremental backup (as of about 5 years ago) when I wrote > Adump. Adump grew out of my frustration of no existing solutions being > able to correctly restore an incremental backup.
I think the only thing that has changed since then is that the current version of star has an incremental mode that works like dump but has a tar-like archive format. There are several constraints in using it in that you must backup up full filesystems in a run. You can't cross mount points and you can lose files if you have exclusions and move files in/out of an excluded area. GNUtar basically gets it right with --listed incremental allowing for some bugs in different versions and the fact that you have to manage the specified file yourself if you want to make multiple incrementals against the last full instead of increasing the incremental levels with each run. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
