Andrei Stebakov wrote:
> 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?

If you installed backuppc from source, you can change the archive 
location during the install.  If you use a packaged version you have to 
either mount or symlink the new target into the pre-configured location 
  (probably /var/lib/backuppc).

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com


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