>>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.

Is there a link to the paper/howto ? We are mainly backuping samba shares off servers so optimising identical files won't be too great.

Our total full backup amounts to about  300Gb of compressed data, + the incr (a few Gb per day). If I stick to a full backup every week, and be capable of restoring 2 months of data, our 2,8 To NAS might blow up ? :o)

We could bring this down to 1 month...

Thanks,

Sebastian


HTH,

Tino.

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