[BackupPC-users] Keeping a large number of backups? Any drawbacks?

Hello,

I built a BackupPC server with good older hardware and installed two WD RED 3 TB drives and used LVM to make them one big ~6 TB volume for backupPC. The system boots from a separate disk BTW. I am backing up teacher and student files for a small school district. The total backup before pooling and compression is around 800GB. My pool size is around 1TB with a months worth of daily incremental and full backups on Fridays. I did not realize when I built the server how amazingly efficiently BackupPC stores the backups. I did not anticipate being able to keep so many backups!

Is there any reason not to just increase the full and incremental keep count to a something like the whole school year? Another though is to keep the fulls and incremental for maybe 3 months then let the incremental go and just keep the weekly fulls? So that's the question, if I have plenty of space is there any reason not to just keep a ton of backups?

Thank you!
David Nelson

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