Author: Craig Barratt <cbarratt AT users.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2013 17:08:36 -0700
Chris, I've never looked into the --listed-incremental option for GNU tar. This might do something similar to what you want. http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/Incremental-Dumps.html I
Author: Holger Parplies <wbppc AT parplies DOT de>
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 21:30:22 +0200
Hi, Craig Barratt wrote on 2013-10-06 17:08:36 -0700 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Tar method - deleted files workaround]: from what I read there, surprisingly, tar files seem to be able to contain file dele
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 15:19:07 -0500
Amanda has used that for many years - it just needs a file maintained on the target hosts to track things.. If the file you specify with --listed-incremental does not exist, you get a full backup and
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 15:54:55 -0500
On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Holger Parplies <wbppc AT parplies DOT de> wrote: It doesn't 'represent deletions', it stores the current full directory listing for each directory, even in an increme
Author: Chris Adamson <chris.adamson AT mcri.edu DOT au>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 12:27:20 +0000
As a workaround for the tar method not detecting deletions on localhost backups, would it be possible to write a script that is run after each incremental to perform a file listing on the source dire
Author: Till Hofmann <hofmanntill AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 19:06:36 +0200
You could use a combination of $Conf{DumpPostUserCmd} and BackupPC_deleteFile to accomplish this. As a workaround for the tar method not detecting deletions on localhost backups, would it be possible
Author: Chris Adamson <chris.adamson AT mcri.edu DOT au>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 23:53:00 +0000
I realized this wont fix the problem of renames. My second thought on this would be to develop a new transfer method that uses rsync initially to get a file listing and then construct a list of files