[nflug] backups on an nfs server ..on and on

[Robert Wolfe]

On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, eric wrote:

> Cool, my server works great and it's really easy to recover files
> ....then I discover that my home dir is 60 gb and my network server has
> only 170 gb of space, definitly not enough room for a mon-fri bkup.
>
> Isn't their a way (through tar) to delta files like in SCCS? Is it
> called increment?

You could do a backup with tar and then burn the resulting tar file to a 
DVD-ROM.  But to save space and store more data, you may want to gzip the 
tar file after it is created.
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