Joerg Schilling wrote: > Rich Teer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> 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. > > Why do you believe that an incremental backup disallows to extract single > files
Rich never said so. He said "the ability to do incremental backups and restore arbitrary files from an archive are two different things." You were addressing an issue he never brought up. Michael -- Michael Schuster Sun Microsystems, Inc. recursion, n: see 'recursion' _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
