On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 08:02:56AM -0400, Andrei Stebakov wrote:

> 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...

I think that while a delta is backed up, BackupPC then uses hard links to
the files from the last backup in order to fill out the backup so that it
looks like a full copy.

I also think this is part of BackupPC's pooling mechanism.

For comparison, I theoretically have 1terabyte of data backed up, but it's
actually only consuming about 120-130gigabytes of storage on my backup
server, thanks to BackupPC's data pooling.


Regards, Msquared...

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