Re: [Dar-support] Rebasing an Incremental Archive

[Freddie W. <fr...@wi...>]

On 18/06/11 17:40, Denis Corbin wrote:
> There is not "better" way than doing a new full backup, however there is
> another ways to building a full backup from a set of differential
> backups, which is based on archive merging. You will have then to find
> the correct overwriting policy and build recursively from the latest
> full and latest differential the equivalent full replacing the latest
> differential... up to the last differential that you can this way
> convert to a full backup... a lot of processing for an important risk of
> error in the archive manipulation.

Thank you for this.  Would you be able to provide an example command for
merging full-date.dar and diff-nextdate.dar into full-nextdate.dar
overwriting/deleting/replacing files as necessary (so that -nextdate
takes precedence)?  I have been reading through the documentation and am
not totally sure I understand how to properly merge two archives (as
opposed to just changing the compression level etc.)

Regards, Freddie.

P.S. Sorry for my delay in responding.