Re: Cruftless incremental backup

[Alvin Oga <aoga@Maggie.Linux-Consulting.com>]

hiya

if you want the backup to mirror the master
than you would want to use rsyn with the --delete option
( the backups deletes it copy of the removed file on the master )

if you want the deleted file to be removed from the backup.tgz file
than you'd have to:
	- have rm   put a lit of files it deleted into
		/var/tmp/backup/delete.lst
	- have your new backup.sh script unpack backup.tgz
	- have your backup.sh script remove the list of files
		in delete.lst
	- rebuild the backup.tgz
	- you're done

-- but why bother.... geez...  defeats the purpose(?) of "backup"

-- more whacky backup scripts 
	http://www.Linux-Backup.net

c ya
alvin

On Sun, 8 Sep 2002, csj wrote:

> I'm looking for a backup tool that can track the files
> I deleted from my filesystem and delete them from my
> backups or at least mark them so they won't be
> restored.
> 
> Let's say I already made a full backup consisting of
> file1, file2 and file3. I make an incremental backup
> after I modify file3, create file4 and delete
> file1. When I restore I want only unmodified file2,
> modified file3 and newly created file4 to appear on my
> filesystem.
> 
> tar's -g or --listed-incremental option doesn't cut it
> in this case. 
>