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| tar does incremental backups, wouldn't something like a timer applet be able to be configured to fire off a tar command? Or maybe use the at daemon?
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| mmmna wrote: | | tar does incremental backups, wouldn't something like a timer applet be able to be configured to fire off a tar command? Or maybe use the at daemon? |
I can't use something like a timer as I'm backing up my laptop to an external drive which isn't always attached. So what I want is something I can run when I connect the drive.
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| Write a small bash script that runs as a daily / weekly CRON job? You could have it check if the external hard drive is connected (grep the /etc/mtab file for the mount point) and if so, continue with a file copy or incremental tar or rsync or whatever.
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| VHockey86 wrote: | | Write a small bash script that runs as a daily / weekly CRON job? You could have it check if the external hard drive is connected (grep the /etc/mtab file for the mount point) and if so, continue with a file copy or incremental tar or rsync or whatever. |
That was one of my thoughts but as I have never written anything like that I put the idea to one side.
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Huh? Here is the end of my "man tar":
| Code: | AUTHOR
Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-tar@gnu.org>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the
terms of the GNU General Public License
<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. There is NO WARRANTY, to the
extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for tar is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If
the info and tar programs are properly installed at your site, the comâ€
mand
info tar
should give you access to the complete manual.
tar 1.16 October 2025 TAR(1) |
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| I dunno, JP, as Konqueror renders the two the same.
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Must be SeaMonkey then ... I see | JP wrote: | Your post reminded me that I wanted to back up my system, so I got to looking into that. Maybe one of these will help you as well.
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| richard quoting me wrote: | Your post reminded me thate a look at them lat I wanted to back up my system, so I got to looking into that. Maybe one of these will help you as well.
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| correction, JP, I was just reading too fast--- it is rendered differently.
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I have had a look at several programs but they all seem to create an archive and all I want is to automate the copying process without creating an archive. Also after creating the initial backup I I want to just backup any new files or files that have been changed since the last backup.
I no sickum about archiving with tar, so I did a "man tar". This is at the end:
I wonder what happened there? I'd better look back and see if my quotes of others has done the same thing