Backing up a directory to a remote file system

[Garrett Goebel]

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Garrett Goebel
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
> [mailto:owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net]On Behalf Of Jason Clinton
> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 9:59 AM
> To: kclug
> Subject: Re: Backing up a directory to a remote file system [x-adr]
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> Jason Clinton wrote:
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> | 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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