Hi,

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 09:36:44AM +0200, Sebastian Perkins wrote:

> We are new to backuppc (migrating from an old DAT tape based system to disk 
> based backup) and we have a question regarding full & incr backups. 
> 
> Our goal is to maintain 2 months of data off samba shares. 
> 
> We will be using the rsync option (better incremental possibilities). Is just 
> using incrementals OK ? (which means the first save will be a "full"). Or do 
> we need a "full" every month + incr every day just like on DAT (this amounts 
> to about 1To). ? 

Nils already wrote about the "full" backups with rsync. You need full
backups to make expiring work. Only full backups are expired, together
with their incremental backups. So I would suggest doing a weekly full.
Also note that because of the pooling in BackupPC, unmodified files are
only stored once. As an extreme example: If you've got an ISO on every
client, it will be stored only once on the backup server since pooling
works across all backups.

HTH,

Tino.

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