On Sun, 20 Dec 2015 15:45:26 +0100 Philipp Riegger <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > is it possible to have multiple (identical) backups with different > names? > > Currently I have a backup script which creates backups with -daily-, > -weekly- and -monthly- in the name for every day, week or month > respectively. At the moment, those are completely different backups > created at different times from the same data. > > Is it possible to create 2 backups with different names from the same > data at the same point in time without using snapshots or something > like this? From my point of view it should be very easy to implement > this in tarsnap (allow "tarsnap -c -f name1 -f name2 ..."). > > At the moment I can only think of something tarsnap-external like > snapshots (which would be more difficult to implement for me) or > something like "tarsnap -c -f name2 @@name1", but I think this would > be quite expensive, is that correct? > > Any other suggestions/ideas? > > Philipp How about creating the first one (name1), then simply using: tarsnap -c name2 @@name1 tarsnap -c name3 @@name1
