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Re: [BackupPC-users] Q: not-expected? behaviour for 'BackupPC_tarCreate' ?

2012-06-13 13:05:09
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Q: not-expected? behaviour for 'BackupPC_tarCreate' ?
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, 13 Jun 2012 12:03:35 -0500
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 8:49 AM, Tim Chipman <tchipman AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
>
> I was under the impression that a command as follows:
>
> /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_tarCreate -h mainserver -s OfficeDocs
> -n -1 . > most-recent.tar
>
> would generate the file, most-recent.tar, with a complete set of all
> files / with the most recent updates from the latest update being
> overlaid with the older full backup set.  Thus I would have expected a
> ~60gb output tarball.
>
> Instead, what I see is a ~1.3gb output tarball which has only files
> changed in the ~last 24 hours.

Something is going wrong there.  You should get the full filled backup.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
      lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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