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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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