#FIG 2.1 80 2 1 3 0 1 -1 0 0 21 0.00000 1 0.000 65 149 5 5 65 149 70 149 1 3 0 1 -1 0 0 21 0.00000 1 0.000 64 264 5 5 64 264 69 264 1 3 0 1 -1 0 0 21 0.00000 1 0.000 64 444 5 5 64 444 69 444 1 3 0 1 -1 0 0 21 0.00000 1 0.000 64 549 5 5 64 549 69 549 2 1 0 3 -1 0 0 0 0.000 -1 0 0 19 49 859 49 9999 9999 2 1 0 3 -1 0 0 0 0.000 -1 0 0 19 629 859 629 9999 9999 4 0 19 18 0 -1 0 0.00000 4 21 379 39 39 Troubleshooting and Repairing a Linux System 4 0 31 36 0 -1 0 0.00000 4 40 685 79 99 Compression and incremental backups 4 0 16 32 0 -1 0 0.00000 4 38 339 79 159 Why not gzip the tarfile? 4 0 17 24 0 -1 0 0.00000 4 29 661 119 194 Well... If there are any errors on the medium you may lose the 4 0 17 24 0 -1 0 0.00000 4 29 659 119 229 entire archive! Better to gzip each file separately; look at afio. 4 0 16 32 0 -1 0 0.00000 4 38 583 79 274 Creating file lists for incremental backups 4 0 17 24 0 -1 0 0.00000 4 29 666 119 309 Idea: Full backup each month, backup only changed files each 4 0 17 24 0 -1 0 0.00000 4 29 347 119 344 week and each day of the week.  4 0 17 24 0 -1 0 0.00000 4 29 443 119 379 find / -mtime 1 -print > filelist.daily 4 0 17 24 0 -1 0 0.00000 4 29 466 119 414 find / -mtime 7 -print > filelist.weekly 4 0 16 32 0 -1 0 0.00000 4 38 386 79 454 Making incremental backup 4 0 17 24 0 -1 0 0.00000 4 29 665 119 489 tar -cv -T filelist.daily -f /dev/rft0: Creates backup from files  4 0 17 24 0 -1 0 0.00000 4 29 695 119 524 listed in `filelist.daily'. Could use same tape for all daily backups! 4 0 16 32 0 -1 0 0.00000 4 38 420 79 559 Restoring incremental backup 4 0 17 24 0 -1 0 0.00000 4 29 743 119 589 Just read tarfile from monthly tape, weekly tape, and each daily tape  4 0 17 24 0 -1 0 0.00000 4 29 138 119 624 in that order.