hmm... did you compared incremental backup of gnu tar with pdumpfs? i guess pdumpfs is much reliable and convenient.
pdumpfs(pseudo dumpfs, i guess) runs on UNIX, the same mechanism is applied to TimeMachine of Mac. On 2013/03/27, at 8:22, trebol <trebol55...@yahoo.es> wrote: > I see a lot of interesting things on this thread, but all of those are > beyond my knowledge. I'm just starting to learn programming (K&R), > the internal structure of the file system is too much for me now. I'm > thinking about mount dump, and copy the /n/dump directory to other system > (linux). So my questions are: > > - Is there a way to simulate the incremental backup feature of gnu tar? > - Is possible to restore the system in a new disk with this copy of dump? > - What do you recommend me for send the tar file, ssh, nfs or other thing? > > thanks, > trebol. >
