On Sun, 24 Feb 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > Incremental backups aren't what I'm talking about. I'm talking about > > the ability to retrieve one or more distinct files from an archive, > > without having to restore the whole archive, like one can do with > > ufsrestore. > > The OP was interested in incremental backups AFAIR.
I'm the OP... :-) > People who like to backup usually also like to do incremental backups. > Why don't you? I do like incremental backups. But the ability to do incremental backups and restore arbitrary files from an archive are two different things. An incremental backup backs up files that have changed since the most recent backup, so suppose my home directory contains 1000 files, 100 of which have changed since my last backup. I perform an incremental backup of my home directory, and the resulting archive contains those 100 files. Now suppose that I accidentally delete a couple of those files; it is very desirable to be able to restore just a certain named subset of the files in an archive rather than having to restore the whole archive. I'm looking for a tool that can do that. -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA, OGB member CEO, My Online Home Inventory URLs: http://www.rite-group.com/rich http://www.linkedin.com/in/richteer http://www.myonlinehomeinventory.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
