Craig-
On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 11:54 AM, Craig Barratt via BackupPC-users <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Ray,
>
> The behavior you are seeing is expected for tar (and smb and ftp)
> XferMethods. Incrementals don't detect deleted or renamed files. So if
> you have a directory with lots of changes, incrementals will backup the new
> files (and any prior files with recent mtimes), and the "view" of the
> backup will grow to be the union of all new and previous files. A full
> backup correctly captures the directory contents, so the process you see
> starts over.
>
That's good to know. I think I'll implement a more traditional full cycle
on the systems I am forced to backup with 'tar' to help deal with this.
> Unfortunately BackupPC_restore isn't easy to use from the command line
> since it requires a lot of information that is passed via a parameter file
> (using similar syntax to config.pl).
>
> How about you use BackupPC_tarCreate? It's easy to create a tar archive
> of any set of directories or files from a specific backup, and then you can
> use tar to extract it on the client.
>
>
The tarCreate method looks like it would be just about as good as we can
get given the size of the directory in question.
Thanks again for your help!
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