on Wed, Feb 27, 2002, Raffaele Sandrini ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi > > I use tar to do my backups. > > For now i allways do full backups. Is tar able to treat only changed files? > That would make my bakups smaller... :-)
# Full backup, run weekly:
touch /var/log/full-backup-start
tar cvf /dev/nst0 <system backup path(s)>
# Differential backups (from full), done nightly:
$ find <path(s)> -depth -newer /var/log/full-backup-start -print0 |
tar cvf /dev/nst0 --files-from --null
I'd strongly recommend _differential_ rather than _incremental_ backups.
You're not building a house of cards susceptible to a single point of
failure.
Peace.
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