Re: How to use tar to do increamental backup

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Date: 11/28/03

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    In comp.unix.misc Steven <yuezhan.zhu@medicinenet.com> wrote:
    > I am new in unix/linux. Now I need to know how to use tar to do
    > increamental backup of my system. specifically I have the following
    > questions:

    > 1. Looking at the man page, it seems to have options like -d
    > (difference), -u (update: which append the updated files to archive
    > file), and -g, and -G. But I am not really sure which one to use for
    > increamental backup. I tried -u, but it seem to still back up the
    > whole things (not changed files only).

    > 2. In order not to overwrite the current archive file, do I have to
    > change archive file name everytime I start to do increamental backup?
    > e.g if I have a fullback called backupweend, do I have to chagne name
    > to backupmon, backuptue if I do increamental backup on monday and
    > tuesday? If yes, that means I have to write a script to do automatic
    > backup?

    > 3. If I tar the root filesystem "/", will all the filesystem mounted
    > to it be backup too. If I have a storage system mounted as "/share",
    > then the backup will include all the contents in "/share"? Is there a
    > option not to include?

    > Thanks for your help,

    > Steven

    Don't confuse backup with archiving.

    Tar is a archive/exchange format. Backup is done with other tools,
    dump is one of them. And dump will of course make true incremental
    backuo(and restore) possible. 

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