Re: incremental backups via ftp
Chistian wrote:
...
> * I've written a shellscript (sh) generating .tar files on-the-fly
> while uploading to the backup server (tar | ncftpput).
> - good, because no local backupspace is need (which might
> not be available anyway)
> - I failed to get incremental backup working, so the daily
> backup process took longer and longer as the /webspace grew
> (~6h!), also the ftp server occasionally closed the connection
> because the backups took so long.
...
In this case you could do something like:
touch new
find /webspace -newer timestamp > list
tar -T list ...
mv new timestamp
Regards,
/Karl
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