I downloaded the sbackup tar.gz but I can't see how to install in in Fedora 34. How to install it? Thanks.
the problem is caused by a change in tar. tar now exits with an error code "2" when positional arguments are used out of order. In the case of sbackup, it places the list of files to exclude after the list of files to include. that's considered an error since the exclude will not be processed. The problem can be fixed by changing sbackup-0.11.6/src/sbackup/ar_backend/tar.py find options.append('--files-from=%s' % tmp_incl) options.append('--exclude-from=%s' % tmp_excl) change the order to options.append('--exclude-from=%s'...
I've also just found sbackup doesn't work on kubuntu 18.04 having just upgraded from 14.04 (not on the same machine). This is a shame since I found it the best for running a simple scheduled backup regime. Perhaps I'll try building it from source on 18.04, unless someone has done it already!
upgrade to ubuntu 18.04 just killed sbackup
Normally I would suggest a simple chron job with a shell script to do the dirty work. find /var/tmp/ -type f -mtime +15 -exec rm -f {} + find files in the directory that are 15 days old and delete them. I do not normally run this so beware and YMMV. for reference https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/155184/how-to-find-and-delete-files-older-than-specific-days-in-unix
I loaded Simple Backup Suite on my new Linux Mint 18.3 system. It works fine except it doesn't delete old backups as it's supposed to. I have it set to delete everything older than 6 days, but they keep hanging around. Is there anything I can do to get them to leave?
Linux Mint I see that I can make a full backup and I do want to make a full backup...
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