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Use a shell script for incremental backups
Authored by: vocaro on Oct 07, '05 09:57:37AM
There is also a script called rdiff-backup with more features than this one, especially when it comes to restoring files.

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Use a shell script for incremental backups
Authored by: bluehz on Oct 07, '05 03:19:23PM

One warning about rdiff-backup. I tried it this week and was a little concerned with the fact that all the files that are backed up have their names changed. This is the mechanism that rdiff-backup uses to indicate the date/version of the file in backup. While that is probably fine - it means you can't just open up a backup and drag a file off, unless you want to go about renaming the files to their original names. I can only assume that rdiff-backup would actually rename the files for you back to their original names if you went through the actual rdiff-backup process of restoring.



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Use a shell script for incremental backups
Authored by: sjk on Oct 07, '05 07:37:56PM
Use a shell script for incremental backups
Authored by: paulsomm on Oct 10, '05 08:46:34AM

Are you sure? I use rdiff-backup and regularly pull individual files back by simply copying them from the backup folder to my harddrive.

There is a funky named folder underwhich are files with changed names, but this is the diff folder. There is a root folder that is an exact copy of the source. In this other folder are the diffs for each file in that root. If you need to get back file versions other than what's at the root, you need to run rdiff-backup in restore mode to apply the diffs to the file as it saves it elsewhere.



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