On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 08:00:38PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 08:47:53PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > > It's still in the initial stages right now, but that could certainly be > > very handy - maybe an external tool to automatically create the ISO? > > Right now, it just spits out a tar file for debrestore to deal with - > > containing one file with the package information, a directory for > > conffiles, and stuff. I'm sure that could be burnt along with the ISO, > > and then debrestore be automatically run ... > > > > Mmm, good ideas you have. :) > > Here's a small script that I started to write a while back and never used > for much. It reads a file list on stdin and filters out files which are > unchanged from the packages available from apt. The idea would be to > generate a list of files to be backed up, and pipe it through this program > to reduce the size of the backup without losing local modifications. Maybe > it will have some useful ideas for you. Thanks. :) Trinity are actually using something similar - a Python system that grabs only what's changed, and hardlinks the rest, so you can pick either full or incremental backups, as you like. -- Daniel Stone <dstone@trinity.unimelb.edu.au> Developer, Trinity College, University of Melbourne
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