Hi,

Boniforti Flavio wrote on 2009-04-28 23:03:05 +0200 [[BackupPC-users] Defining 
data retention periods]:
> Am I right if I understand that leaving INCR Backups with IncrLevel=1, means
> in fact that every incremental backup is done in relation to the most recent
> FULL backup?

yes.

> Thus, if I¹d change the level from 1 to 6 (for example) I
> simply would be turning the ³pure incremental² backups into ³differential²
> backups? I mean, in this latter case, incr backups would be done in relation
> to the most recent BACKUP (full or incremental wouldn¹t play a role)?!

No.

> OK, now the main question of my post: data retention.
> I want to have one full month of daily retrievable backups: would this be
> achieved by setting ³FullKeepCnt² to 4 and ³IncrKeepCnt² to 24?

If your months have 28 days, yes. In my personal experience, that is true only
for 73.8% of the Februaries. YMMV.

> Would I need to change something else?

No.

Regards,
Holger

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