On 2/23/2011 8:52 AM, John Goerzen wrote:
>
> I am thinking it may be possible to do this with some simple shell
> scripting (writing out a snapshot file based on the backup number, and
> for incrementals copying the snapshot file from the backup the
> incremental is based on over to one for the current run) without
> modification to BackupPC itself.  However, I'm unsure whether BackupPC's
> custom tar parsing would work well with the result.
>
> It would certainly be better to see this code integrated into BackupPC
> directly.
>
> Thoughts?

amanda uses gnutar's --listed-incremental mode - you might look at how 
they do it.  It requires maintaining files on the target machine, which 
I suppose you could avoid by copying them back and forth in pre/post run 
commands.

But, I don't see how this would be better than rsync for most situations.

-- 
   Les Mikeselll
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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