BackupPC-users

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

2012-06-13 14:17:16
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Q: not-expected? behaviour for 'BackupPC_tarCreate' ?
From: Tim Fletcher <tim AT night-shade.org DOT uk>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 19:15:39 +0100
On 13/06/12 14:49, Tim Chipman wrote:

<snip problem description>

> So.  Just wanted to check,
> - is this expected behaviour?
> - if I want to get 'full  backup and latest' offsite, do I just need
> to take a copy of the 'zero day' tarball offsite, and then each night,
> generate a tarball of 'diffs for that day' using the n of minus one
> flag -- and rsync that out -- and I'll be 'ok'.
> - or is there some other way to get the BackupPC_tarCreate command -
> to automagically merge diffs with full - so that each night it dumps
> the 'whole, latest' ?
>
> Any comments are certainly greatly appreciated.


What if you trigger the tar file build from the web interface?

What if you browse the most recent backup via the web interface does it 
contain the files you expect?

-- 
Tim Fletcher <tim AT night-shade.org DOT uk>

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