File structure of the backup

Asked by Anthony O.

I searched every resource of sbackup (except reading the source itself) and I didn't found any information about the file structure of the backup repository used by sbackup...

How the data to backup is stored inside the repository ?

Thanks !

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Anton (feenstra) said :
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The main structure is a directory per snapshot (full or incremental), the name includes date and time and .ful or .inc to indicate full or incremental snapshots. Inside is a tar archive (which may or may not be split or zipped - but not both), and a number of accessory files that you probably don't need if you want to manually access a particular file from the tar archive.

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Anthony O. (netangel+launchpad) said :
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Thanks for your answer Anton.
No I don't want to manually access or edit any file from it.
I just want to evaluate sbackup solution versus others on Ubuntu, and wanted to know which techniques is implemented here, but there is no documentation and so I was surprised for an open source project...
So there is an "incremental" feature ? Using diff like rdiff-backup, or copying only new files more like rsnapshot ?
And those "number of accessory files", what are they ? Metadatas indicating dates and writes for files ? Other ?

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Anton (feenstra) said :
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The incremental backup indeed just copies new files, those modified after the last backup.
About the other files, I don't know. Jean-Peer Lorenz is the current main developer so he should be able to explain what these are.

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Anthony O. (netangel+launchpad) said :
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Hey, my question is still unanswered...

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