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Re: [BackupPC-users] fulls vs incrementals (was: how to have 1 full backup + incrementals forever?)

2009-10-20 12:09:35
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] fulls vs incrementals (was: how to have 1 full backup + incrementals forever?)
From: Daniel Berteaud <daniel AT firewall-services DOT com>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:06:44 +0200
Le mardi 20 octobre 2009 à 11:57 -0400, Ambrose LI a écrit :
> 2009/10/20 Michael Stowe <mstowe AT chicago.us.mensa DOT org>:
> > 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.
> 
> I'm not sure if I can agree with this, since this is definitely not my
> experience. Even after a month, there are pc's on my network where
> incrementals (rsync-based) still run significantly faster than fulls.

Yes, in my case also, I can see incremential running faster than full
after a month, but it usually don't eat more bandwidth (well, a bit
more, but not that much), just more time. The benefit is that all your
files will be checked (block checksum) so if one is corrupted in the
pool it can be updated.

I personnaly run one full per month, and one incremential per day, with
7 incremential levels ($Conf{IncrLevel} = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7])


Regards, Daniel


> 
> 
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