Hy Carl,

> actually, I believe that the fulls are expired when BOTH:
> - all incrementals depending on them expire
> - the retention period for fulls expires

you say you *believe* that BackupPC is working like above, which would
be very intelligent and would make sense. Still, is there anybody who
can confirm what Carl and I are believing?

> > So, wouldn't it make more sense to retain 5 FULL backups?
> 
> If you retain 5 full (weekly) backups, but only 4 weeks of 
> incrementals, you will not have incrementals for that last 
> week. (As I understand it, and how I belive things used to work).

It woulnd't bother much, as I want to have *4 full weeks* of backups,
this would be ok! ;-)

Thanks,
Flavio Boniforti

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