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Re: [SLE] a NERO user familiar with backing up data on multisession CDR, how do I do it in Linux too?
  • From: "Alexey Eremenko" <al4321@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 18:52:44 +0000 (UTC)
  • Message-id: <7fac565a0609171152r518d6a39l6e953ea7bffe4926@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
I know that K3b is able to do basic multisession, and I know that
"tar" command is able to do incremental backup data since date "X", so
you might use the command below to backup:

tar -cvz --newer-mtime 2006-9-1 -f mybackup-20060901.tgz Dir-to-backup/

explanation: "tar : create, verbose, gnu zip, start from modified date
2006, September, 1st, backup to file: "mybackup.tgz", backup the
following dirs: Dir-to-backup/ Dir-to-backup2/ ..."

extraction is much easier- just use:
tar -xvf mybackup.tgz

one caveeat:
this command will NOT delete your old, deleted files from archive.

So do full backup from time to time. This will fix this small problem.

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