Since files are pooled, there's really no downside to you doing full
backups every 7 days and incrementals every night, and just increasing
your retention periods to something you can live with.

If you're going to keep all those incrementals, I wouldn't recommend doing
full backups any less frequently than every two weeks or so, which is
often the point at which they become as slow or slower than full backups.

> Yes, in my config.pl I have:
>
> $Conf{XferMethod} = 'rsync';
>
> I'm doing this because it's what management wants, to be able to restore
> a file from any backup, so the backups will have to span indefinitely.
> There are times when i've been asked to restore a file that was last
> touched by a user 3, 5, etc years ago and at some more recent point was
> deleted.  And to carry that out, I'm asking if I have the proper
> configuration for that.  I am open to suggestions on how often I should
> be doing full and incremental backups.
>
> Michael Stowe wrote:
>> Is there a point to doing this?  Note that if you use rsync, only the
>> changed files are transferred even during a full backup...


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