Adam Williams wrote:
> 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.

If you have many logfiles, mailboxes, or database files you'll burn up a 
lot of space keeping every incremental. Do you need to be able to 
restore from any day's backup or would one a week be enough after you go 
back a month or so?  Regardless, I'd try to stick with weekly fulls and 
daily incrementals (the defaults) and set $Conf{FullKeepCntMin} to a 
very large number so fulls won't ever be deleted and 
$Conf{IncrKeepCntMin} to the number of days back that you'll need daily 
access (or also very large if you don't want any incrementals to be 
deleted).

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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