Have instructions on how to install sbackup in fedora 34?

Advait — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 16:19:01 -0000

I downloaded the sbackup tar.gz but I can't see how to install in in Fedora 34. How to install it? Thanks.

ubuntu 18.04

Doug Shelton — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 17:16:47 -0000

the problem is caused by a change in tar. tar now exits with an error code "2" when positional arguments are used out of order. In the case of sbackup, it places the list of files to exclude after the list of files to include. that's considered an error since the exclude will not be processed.

The problem can be fixed by changing sbackup-0.11.6/src/sbackup/ar_backend/tar.py
find
options.append('--files-from=%s' % tmp_incl)
options.append('--exclude-from=%s' % tmp_excl)

change the order to
options.append('--exclude-from=%s' % tmp_excl)
options.append('--files-from=%s' % tmp_incl)

uninstall the old version then make this one. This worked for me under Xubuntu 18.10.

ubuntu 18.04

tobiz1 — Fri, 19 Oct 2018 11:02:34 -0000

I've also just found sbackup doesn't work on kubuntu 18.04 having just upgraded from 14.04 (not on the same machine). This is a shame since I found it the best for running a simple scheduled backup regime. Perhaps I'll try building it from source on 18.04, unless someone has done it already!

ubuntu 18.04

Robert Leleu — Thu, 03 May 2018 10:21:05 -0000

upgrade to ubuntu 18.04 just killed sbackup

Not deleting old backups

Jack Coats — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 20:07:52 -0000

Normally I would suggest a simple chron job with a shell script to do the dirty work.

find /var/tmp/ -type f -mtime +15 -exec rm -f {} +

find files in the directory that are 15 days old and delete them. I do not normally run this so beware and YMMV.

for reference
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/155184/how-to-find-and-delete-files-older-than-specific-days-in-unix

Not deleting old backups

Ed Fix — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 10:04:25 -0000

I loaded Simple Backup Suite on my new Linux Mint 18.3 system. It works fine except it doesn't delete old backups as it's supposed to. I have it set to delete everything older than 6 days, but they keep hanging around. Is there anything I can do to get them to leave?

Full Backup + incremental snapshot

Garrett — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 01:15:04 -0000

Linux Mint
I see that I can make a full backup and I do want to make a full backup but I'd also like to be able to make incremental snaphsots thereafter. Is that possilbe in sbackup because I don't see much in the menu to indicate that it is? Thanks.

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