[olug] Inc. Backup restores w/o Deleted Files

[William E. Kempf]

Jeff Hinrichs said:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "William E. Kempf" <wekempf at cox.net>
> To: <olug at olug.org>
> Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 3:40 PM
> Subject: [olug] (no subject)
>> So, what I'm looking for is a backup/restore system that meets the
> following requirements:
>>
>> * Backs up to a mounted directory (I will use Samba to get the backup
>> to
> go to my Windows box).
>>
>> * Performs both full and incremental backups.
>>
>> * Allows me to restore to any of the "point in time" snapshots with
>> out
> resurrection of deleted files.
>>
>> * Does compressed backups.
>>
>> * Is either free, or cheap.
>
> Sorry, but no archiving/backup solution, I know of, allows for
> incremental or differential backups to provide for deleted
> folders/files.  As they backup any changed files/folders since the last
> full backup.  Only a full backup is a "snapshot" of the system.  What
> you are looking for is something along the line of cvs or svn, revision
> control systems.  svn and, I believe cvs, can both use a file system
> instead of a server as a repository.  This will accounted for deleted
> files, allow restoration to any point in time and only save deltas of
> any non-binary file.  Binary files are handled differently by both
> systems.  **BEWARE** your repository could grow very large depending on
> type types of files and the number of checkins that you do.

Which is why a version control system is *NOT* what I'm looking for.

If this doesn't exist, I may have to hack my own.  It really shouldn't be
too difficult to do this, even just with a Bash script and tar.

-- 
William E. Kempf