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Re: backup a different root folder
- To: Ali Khalfan <ali.khalfan@gmail.com>, tarsnap-users@tarsnap.com
- Subject: Re: backup a different root folder
- From: Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 12:03:38 -0700
- In-reply-to: <CAPdxSKWxtAy__3qpDcyBgc6tM+OZ9FjOweLXbmhmQF9R=Z3gbw@mail.gmail.com>
- References: <CAPdxSKWxtAy__3qpDcyBgc6tM+OZ9FjOweLXbmhmQF9R=Z3gbw@mail.gmail.com>
On 04/30/14 10:46, Ali Khalfan wrote:
> let's say I do this:
>
> tarsnap -c -f mybackup /usr/home /other/stuff
>
> then another day I do
>
> tarsnap -c -f anotherbackup /morestuff
>
> will this also backup the changes in /usr/home and /other/stuff ?
No. If you want /usr/home and /other/stuff to be part of anotherbackup, you
should list them on the tarsnap command line.
> and what happens if I delete the first archive mybackup
That archive gets deleted, leaving anotherbackup behind (which contains
/morestuff).
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Colin Percival
Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve
Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid