Hi,

I'm running Xubuntu 6.06 and trying to get backup-manager to do tarball-incremental. However, it always does a full size tarball.

The relevant section is included below, version is 0.6.1, what am I missing? I just don't see it, any help appreciated

Regards,

Peter

# The backup method to use.
# Available methods are:
# - tarball
# - tarball-incremental
# - mysql
# - svn
# - pipe
# - none
# If you don't want to use any backup method (you don't want to
# build archives) then choose "none"
export BM_ARCHIVE_METHOD="tarball-incremental"
##############################################################
# Section "TARBALL"
# - Backup method: tarball
#############################################################
# Archive filename format
# long : host-full-path-to-folder.tar.gz
# short : parentfolder.tar.gz
export BM_TARBALL_NAMEFORMAT="long"
# Type of archives, available types are tar, tar.gz, tar.bz2, zip.
export BM_TARBALL_FILETYPE="zip"
# Do you want to dereference the files pointed by symlinks ?
# enter true or false (true can lead to huge archives, be careful).
export BM_TARBALL_DUMPSYMLINKS="false"
# Directories you want to backup as tarballs (separated by spaces)
export BM_TARBALL_DIRECTORIES="/home/user/directories"
# Files to exclude when generating tarballs
export BM_TARBALL_BLACKLIST=""

##############################################################
# The tarball-incremental method uses the same keys as the
# tarball method, plus two others.
#############################################################
# Which frequency to use for the master tarball?
# possible values: weekly, monthly
export BM_TARBALLINC_MASTERDATETYPE="weekly"
# Number of the day, in the BM_TARBALLINC_MASTERDATETYPE frequency
# when master tarballs should be made
export BM_TARBALLINC_MASTERDATEVALUE="1"
# Examples: you want to make maser tarballs every friday:
# BM_TARBALLINC_MASTERDATETYPE="weekly"
# BM_TARBALLINC_MASTERDATEVALUE="5"
#
# Or every first day of the month:
# BM_TARBALLINC_MASTERDATETYPE="monthly"
# BM_TARBALLINC_MASTERDATEVALUE="1"

I am not familiar with backup-manager, but I do my full and incremental backups with a script I found on the internet which works great! I'd be happy to share it with you if you want.

thanks, it's solved, as it uses the tar incremental options, it doesn't work with zip ... I found that in the manual of the newer version

Regards,

Peter