Adam Williams wrote:
> Due to the nature of my business, I'd like to have BackupPC perform one 
> full backup and then have incremental backups continue indefinitely.  Is 
> the only way to do this, is to set the parameters in config.pl to very 
> large numbers?
> 
> $Conf{FullKeepCntMin} = 1;
> $Conf{FullAgeMax}     = 9999999999999;
> $Conf{IncrKeepCnt} = 9999999999999;
> $Conf{IncrKeepCntMin} = 9999999999999;
> $Conf{IncrAgeMax}     = 9999999999999;
> 

That's generally a bad idea.  Incremental backups with non-rsync methods 
won't catch new files created by methods that maintain old timestamps or 
the new locations of files under renamed directories.  Rysnc 
incrementals either copy everything that has changed since the previous 
full if you don't use incremental levels or they have to do a lot of 
extra work to merge all of the accumulated differences in the 
incrementals if you do.

Backuppc doesn't store duplicate copies and if you use rsync, doesn't 
transfer files you had in the last full, so there is not a big downside 
to doing fulls weekly or so.


-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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