Re: Question about backuping multiply dirs

[Amar Cosic <amar.cosic@gmail.com>]

Hello

Here is couple outputs that should be helpful..

root@lemon:/etc# tarsnap --list-archives
test.london
mybackup


now there is 'mybackup' while it should be backup-%date right?
(test.london is just something I created today for testing)

Also when I do this:

tarsnap -tv -f mybackup |grep '/var'
lrwxrwxrwx  0 root   root        0 Aug 31 20:48 etc/motd -> /var/run/motd
lrwxrwxrwx  0 root   root        0 Aug 31 23:01
etc/fonts/conf.d/30-defoma.conf ->
/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/fonts.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  0 root   root          0 Aug 31 23:01
etc/pango/pangox.aliases -> /var/lib/defoma/pango.d/pangox.aliases


Nothing with /var there..  Date might be weird too, but there is also
chance that there was no changes from that date on files..





On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 11:42 PM, Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com> wrote:
> On 10/30/11 04:43, Amar Cosic wrote:
>> I just figured out tarsnap did not backup'd all dirs I told him to do.. luck me
>> everything was OK with production : )
>>
>> Anyway, I want to backup /etc and /var/www/vhosts so I am using this in my cron
>>  00 03 * * * tarsnap -c -f backup-`date +\%Y\%m\%d` /etc /var/www/vhosts
>>
>> However tarsnap synced only /etc ignoring /var/www/vhosts . Any tips on how to
>> properly use tarsnap to backup multiply dirs?
>
> Hmm, that looks fine to me.  Of course the leading / will be stripped so
> you'd need to specify "etc" or "var/www/vhosts" rather that "/etc" or
> "/var/www/vhosts" when extracting.
>
> Does this work outside of cron?  Any there any error messages printed?
>
> --
> Colin Percival
> Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve
> Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
>



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Amar Ćosić
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