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[BackupPC-users] Newbie: full vs incremental backup

2008-09-28 08:06:37
Subject: [BackupPC-users] Newbie: full vs incremental backup
From: "Andrei Stebakov" <lispercat AT gmail DOT com>
To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 08:02:56 -0400
I've just set up the BackupPC server on my Ubuntu system.
Changed the TopDir to /backup which is mounted on a different hard drive.
I configured Xfer to be tar for my localhost and tried to backup my /home/user directory.
All backups that I did (one full and two incremental) worked without problem.
Now it looks like every incremental backup is not different from a full backup as it takes almost the same space on disk as a full backup. I thought it should only backup the delta...
Where am I wrong?

Thank you,
Andrew
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