Re: [BackupPC-users] Issues with a restore

2013-10-07 Thread David Williams
Thanks, that did work and backups are now running :) Dave Williams On 10/2/2013 11:15 AM, David Williams wrote: Actually, it isn't resolved. I just haven't had the time to look into it. I will try out the sudo

Re: [BackupPC-users] Issues with backing up Windows laptop with SMB

2013-10-07 Thread David Williams
Got this working too, but some other issues now which I need to look into. For some reason certain directories under my C:/users/dwilliams folder are not getting backed up. Not sure why that would be but will try and take a look at this and see what I can find out. However, backups are

Re: [BackupPC-users] Tar method - deleted files workaround

2013-10-07 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Craig Barratt wrote on 2013-10-06 17:08:36 -0700 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Tar method - deleted files workaround]: Chris, I've never looked into the --listed-incremental option for GNU tar. This might do something similar to what you want.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Tar method - deleted files workaround

2013-10-07 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 7:08 PM, Craig Barratt cbarr...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: I've never looked into the --listed-incremental option for GNU tar. This might do something similar to what you want. http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/Incremental-Dumps.html I also don't

Re: [BackupPC-users] Tar method - deleted files workaround

2013-10-07 Thread Les Mikesell
On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Holger Parplies wb...@parplies.de wrote: http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/Incremental-Dumps.html from what I read there, surprisingly, tar files seem to be able to contain file deletions (i.e. extracting the archive will *delete* a file in the