[kwlug-disc] GNU tar incremental backup bug?

William Park opengeometry at yahoo.ca
Mon Oct 27 13:09:05 EDT 2025


You still use dump/restore?  Then, again, I''m still using Slackware 
(and looking).
I use btrfs's snapshots.  Each snaphot is independent, while keeping 
only one copy.

On 2025-10-27 10:29, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
> I have been using incremental backups at the filesystem level
> for 15 or 20 years. The filesystem in my case is ext4, and the dump
> command does that for me.
> I do a full backup on the first day of the month and incremental
> every day for the rest of the month, keeping the last 6 days of
> incrementals.
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