BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] incremental backup question

2009-12-23 12:58:00
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] incremental backup question
From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:55:36 -0600
Mester wrote:
>>> What about $Conf{TarIncrArgs}?
>> That is more interesting (because this is where the '+' might be missing). To
>> put it more general: if you want to avoid this debugging ping-pong, provide
>> some relevant information (like your configuration settings and log file
>> extracts, for example). Even if we *can* sometimes give terse answers to
>> terse questions, you probably wouldn't be asking the questions if this type
>> of answer were of any help to you (the documentation would explain everything
>> sufficiently in this case (not meaning to imply that it's terse)).
>>
>> In particular, describe your problem, not your analysis of it. We want to
>> concentrate on fixing problems, not analyses.
> 
> So my TarIncrArg is:
> $Conf{TarIncrArgs} = '--newer=$incrDate $fileList';
> 
> And what else should I send? The whole log file? It's more than 3 MB. 
> How should I send it?

See the default at http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html.
It has:
$Conf{TarIncrArgs} = '--newer=$incrDate+ $fileList+';

The interesting part of your log would only be the command shown at the 
top of the xferlog, and it needs to have appropriate quoting.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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