Hi,
We have just switched over to incremental backups using nfs, which the transfer to a remote server.
For the last 8+ years we've downloaded the tars of cancelled or transferred accounts to our office computers for safe keeping or restores in the event they are needed again.
(especially those for websites we develop)
If we want to create a tar of an account on the backup server, can we just select the date/account we want to tar and via the hardlinks it will create a restorable tar file of that account?
Eg if we keep 7 days backups and we select /2017-10-17/username it will create a full tar of how the account was on that day using the hardlinks in the incremental files?
Or if we selected the latest backup it would create a full tar of that.
If this works, it will of course be MUCH slower as backup servers are low spec high storage, but at least we could get a working tar if we needed one for storage or to give to a customer who wants it.
Thanks
We have just switched over to incremental backups using nfs, which the transfer to a remote server.
For the last 8+ years we've downloaded the tars of cancelled or transferred accounts to our office computers for safe keeping or restores in the event they are needed again.
(especially those for websites we develop)
If we want to create a tar of an account on the backup server, can we just select the date/account we want to tar and via the hardlinks it will create a restorable tar file of that account?
Eg if we keep 7 days backups and we select /2017-10-17/username it will create a full tar of how the account was on that day using the hardlinks in the incremental files?
Or if we selected the latest backup it would create a full tar of that.
If this works, it will of course be MUCH slower as backup servers are low spec high storage, but at least we could get a working tar if we needed one for storage or to give to a customer who wants it.
Thanks