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

[On 16 Dec, @15:44, Boris wrote in "Re: [hdup-user] suggestion: do ..."]
> 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.

i'm looking a flexbackup now (a perl based backup solution, comparable
to hdup) and it indeed does it's own incremental backup administration.
Probably because afio cannot not do it, so starting with afio and then
adding tar is easy, the other way around is much harder...

grtz Miek