Re: Question about backuping multiply dirs

[Max Hennig <maximilianrh@googlemail.com>]

Am Sun Oct 30 23:57:41 2011 schrieb Amar Cosic:
> 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..
>
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> 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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Hello Amar,

try 

tarsnap -tv -f mybackup | grep 'var'

Tarsnap removes the leading '/' so 'var/' is left