Re: Standalone backup

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam trinity edu>]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 06:03:03PM +0100, Matthias Saou wrote:
> Once upon a time, ccroswhite get2chip com wrote :
> 
> > I wuld use a simple script to either dump or tar everything onto your
> > disk. You can then do diffs rather than full if needed.  However, I would
> > recommend no diffs (as I have problems always getting the file on to a
> > diff tape) and full backups on your schedule.
> 
> That's why I'd like something that would allow me to do incremental
> backups, and if possible, provide me an efficient way of recovering given
> files as they were on a given date (like amrecover and amrestore do for
> amanda). The other reason why I'd like it to be incremental is that I need
> to backup 120GB of data, from which lots doesn't change at all, with a 40GB
> drive.
> 
> There must be something as powerful as amanda but for "standalone" systems,
> no?
> 
tar will do incremental  backups if yo use the -N option.

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