Backing up a directory to a remote file system

[Jason Clinton]

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Jason Clinton wrote:

| I want to perform incremental backups of /pub on a Linux samba server to
| a box on the other side of Kansas City. Some combination involving tar
| looks like the right direction to go but I can't think of a way to have
| tar incrementally compare the files being backed up to the remote
| tarball before the operation begins. I'm not ready to rely on sshfs
| until it is more stable.

I should probably clarify the problem a bit more:

I want one entire backup to occur on Saturday night and then incremental
additions to that remote file to occur throughout the week to minimize
transfers.

'dump' can do all of this. The problem is that 'dump' looks directly at
the INODE tables for its opperations and only supports ext2.

There's a 'reiserfsdump' that is a wrapper script for 'tar' but it only
supports a subset of dump's functions.

Hope that's clearer.

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