Re: suggestion: do not keep files in tar archives.

On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 08:43, Jesper K. Pedersen wrote:

> I want to keep the possibility of having daily incremental back ups, something I don't
> get with just mirroring. Still I also want to have fast access (secs rather
> than several hours) to the files of the backup.

It seems like afio archives are a good solution to your needs.  Just for
the record, though, some of the rsync backup scripts do keep daily
incrementals or snapshots.  rsync-backup, for instance, puts each daily
backup in a directory, making hard links of the files that haven't
changed so that you can have the same file in multiple places without
wasting disk space (I haven't used it, that's just from the README).

AFAICT, afio doesn't have built-in support for incremental backups, so
that logic would have to be supplied by hdup.

Bng