BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental Seems To Backup Whole System

2010-02-18 21:34:02
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental Seems To Backup Whole System
From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:32:41 -0600
Mike Bydalek wrote:
> 
> 
> After re-reading the documentation for {IncrLevels} again the
> configuration settings are starting to make sense.  The only question
> I have left is, does creating a new "full" backup *have* to do the
> entire full backup again?  Can't it just perform an increment and
> merge it to create a full?  The reason I ask is I'm planning on moving
> this server off-site so it'll go over a WAN.  Sending 250G over a 1M
> connection every week or two doesn't sound fun!  Is this what
> $Conf{IncrFill} is supposed to handle?

Why don't you just do fulls more often?  With rsync they don't transfer any 
more 
data than an incremental and they always become the comparison for the next 
run. 
The only real difference is that it reads everything on the target system, but 
over a WAN that won't make it much slower.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com


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