Building on this thread, GNU tar (which is installed by most Linux distributions, and all available distributions installable on VPSlink) supports incremental backups, meaning it only archives files that have changed since the last backup was done.
Category Archives: Linux
Recover Deleted Files in Linux
You must be wondering how we could recover a deleted file, because the very word “delete” implies “permanently gone”. However, when you delete a file (accidentally or intentionally), its contents are not removed from your hard disk; the blocks that the file occupied on the storage device (like a hard disk) still contain the data, …
Show Linux Partitions Command
How do I display or show a list of all hard disk drive partitions under Linux operating systems? Your PC or x86 Linux server hard disk drive can be divided into one or more logical disks called partitions. This division is described in the partition table found in sector 0 of the disk.
Backup files with tar
TAR is the Unix Tape ARchive utility. It can be used to either store data on a streaming tape device like a DAT drive, or store files in what is commonly called a tarball file- somewhat like a pkzip file, only compression is optional.
Linux / UNIX: Determine File Type
How do I determine the file type under UNIX or Linux like operating systems? You need to use the file command to determine file type. File command tests each argument in an attempt to classify it. There are three sets of tests, performed in this order: filesystem tests, magic number tests, and language tests. The …
Linux Shell Date format
Task: Display date in mm-dd-yy format