Daily backups

[Jim Richardson]

On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 16:41 -0500, Phillip Susi wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out how to set up a system to perform automated 
> daily incremental and weekly full backups.  So far I have no problem 
> using tar for a weekly full backup, but now I'm trying to get it to 
> perform daily incremental backups.  I found the --newer-mtime option 
> that looks like it should do the trick for daily backups, but I have a 
> few small issues still left to work out:
> 
> 1) tar gets very noisy with --newer-mtime; it spits out a line for every 
> file that it does NOT backup because it's too old
> 
> 2) tar seems to include all directories in the archive, regardless of 
> their mtime.  This doesn't really hurt anything I suppose, but it seems 
> wasteful.
> 
> 3) I need a way to generate a date string automatically for yesterday. 
> Something like `date --yesterday`.
> 
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas?
> 
> 

Yeah, use either rbackup, or rdiff-backup. 


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Jim Richardson http://www.eskimo.com/~warlock
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