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Written by Stefan Hoefer   
Tuesday, 09 March 2010 15:27
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Creating a second backup of the same file, based on the first one
Creating a backup of a file on a remote server
Restoring a file
Getting some help

In this article, I will show you some basic examples of how to use bigsync.

Creating a simple backup of a file

bigsplit /home/user/bigfile /home/user/bigfile.bkp.1

Creating a second backup of the same file, based on the first one

bigsplit --reference /home/user/bigfile.bkp.1 /home/user/bigfile /home/user/bigfile.bkp.2

Creating a backup of a file on a remote server

ssh some.host.local ’bigsplit /usr/bigfile -’ ⎪ bigsplit --reference /home/usr/bigfile.bkp.1 - /home/usr/bigfile.bkp.2

Restoring a file

bigjoin /home/user/bigfile.bkp.2 /home/user/bigfile.new

Getting some help

bigsplit --help

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