Nick Smith wrote:

> What do you think would be the harm in just doing full backups?
> instead of doing a
> full and then forever incrementals, if the full backup really only
> backs up changed files
> since the last full backup, i really wouldnt need to do incrementals
> at all, and from what
> i understand actually get shorter backups and use less bandwidth with
> full backups, but
> with more cpu/memory overhead.  its a dual xeon 3.2ghz machine with
> 2gigs of ram, so i think
> that will be just fine, maybe in the future ill up the ram.

I think a mix of full and incremental backups is still the best  
configuraiton. Full backups take longer (at least on our BackupPC  
servers), probably because it takes more resources to compare all file  
contents. We do use checksum caching. I find that the default setup of  
doing full backups once a week and incrementals in between is working  
just fine for us.

Nils Breunese.

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