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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Do incremental backup without tar files up Post 302434846 by cjcox on Monday 5th of July 2010 11:57:11 AM
Old 07-05-2010
Just me... I'd use Linux as the holder of the backup data. rsync, as mentioned is the best solution, but in lieu of that, sounds like you'll have to write a screen scraping (?) ftp like manager to loop through and grab everything. Could mean multiple passes. Might help to know the target system? You'd be surprised at what people have experience with.

I'd use Linux, because assuming you can roll through and pull the whole tree across ala ftp style (maybe you're system supports scripting on xfer??).... then you can use the GNU cp -l option to create a link shadow of the backed up area... this is a cheap mans snapshotting. So as long as the backup and shapshots on the receiving system are within the SAME filesystem, you can use this cheap snapshot mechanism to keep track of multiple days... AND you can browse through it all.
 

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