On Monday 16 August 2010 11:30:36 Nganon wrote: > On 16 August 2010 11:36, Marco <listwo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Nganon > > <nganon+gen...@gmail.com<nganon%2bgen...@gmail.com>> > > > > wrote: > > > [...] > > > Here is what I wanna do. I want to have only one big backup for, say, > > > userA-2010.08.07.tgz and other small backup tars containing only the > > > files/folders that were modified since last update, 2010.08.07, as > > > userA-diff-2010.08.14.tgz, userA-diff-2010.08.21.tgz, > > > > > > userA-diff-2010.08.28.tgz > > > > > > etc. Now if I want to take the userA back to the future, 2010.08.21, I > > > > want > > > > > to > > > do it by first extracting the huge tar userA-2010.08.07.tgz and then > > > the tiny > > > backup userA-diff-2010-08-21.tgz. > > > > backup2l can do exactly what you want: > > > > http://backup2l.sourceforge.net/ > > Nice one indeed. Exactly does what I want. It is also good that the backups > can be use without the program itself. > > It does not seem to be updated since 2009 but I will give it a try.
Not sure if it's in an overlay, but I don't think it's in portage. Run eix -l backup and see how many back up tools and scripts pop up. I have been using tar, star and rsync. They all work and they can all make incremental back ups. You'll find that a lot of the other 'smart' back up applications are based on these anyway. HTH. -- Regards, Mick
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