Re: [flexbackup-help] incremental backups and deleted files

[Pablo G. <pa...@go...>]

Thanks for your reply. I've been researching the problem since I was 
using tar and I thought this would be solved in recent backup utilities. 
It is not that difficult to implement, I can't believe that it has not 
been addressed.

Thanks
Pablo

Charlie Brady wrote:

>On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Pablo Godel wrote:
>
>  
>
>>I am testing flexbackup. I've set type "star" and run the following command:
>>
>>flexbackup -set server
>>
>>Then, added a file, and run
>>flexbackup -set server -incremental
>>
>>the new file appears in the incremental backup
>>
>>Then, I removed the file.
>>
>>When I extract the files from each backup file, I end up with the file 
>>that was deleted.
>>    
>>
>
>AIUI, that's just how incremental backup/restore works.
>
>  
>
>>How can I get to delete those files that have been deleted in between
>>incremental backups?
>>    
>>
>
>I take it you mean "automatically".
>
>The incremental backup would also need to contain information about files
>which had been deleted since the previous incremental. That would mean
>that the file system would need to hold information about previously
>deleted files, which in general it doesn't. Or the backup system would
>need to take a snapshot of all the directories at each backup.
>
>--
>Charlie
>
>
>
>-------------------------------------------------------
>This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files
>for problems?  Stop!  Download the new AJAX search engine that makes
>searching your log files as easy as surfing the  web.  DOWNLOAD SPLUNK!
>http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642
>_______________________________________________
>flexbackup-help mailing list
>fle...@li...
>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flexbackup-help
>  
>