Re: increment backup of home dir

[Jerome BENOIT <sphericaltriangle@rezozer.net>]

Hi Again,

On 22/03/2025 15:14, songbird wrote:
> Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> > songbird wrote:
> ...
> > >     ultimately i really need a way to do backups that will
> > > deduplicate
> >
> > I do not see what you mean.
>
>    my old backups are not incremental so they will contain a
> lot of files that would be identical copies to other backups.

backup2l is incremental

> > > and must be 100% bulletproof and stable.
> >
> > backup2l is stable (it uses stable tools (as tar) and it is written in an easy-to-read bash).
> > For the bulletproof part, the choice of the compressor might be crucial: backup2l allows to
> > choose your favorite one.
>
>    sounds ok to me, but i may also decide for some things to
> not compress at all.  very large archives of materials
> already compressed would be one i'd like to skip messing
> with at all.

Not compressing the tarballs is possible.




>    songbird

hth,
Jerome