BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] Designing a BackupPC install over a WAN - minimising Full backups

2009-01-21 00:27:27
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Designing a BackupPC install over a WAN - minimising Full backups
From: Peter Wright <pete AT flooble DOT net>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:08:31 +0900
On 21/01 14:01:19, Adam Goryachev wrote:
> David Crisp wrote:
> > Idealy I would love the system to be able to sit in place and make
> > regular incrementals of the data with the most minimal of network
> > traffic requried to backup the data.

> Contrary to popular belief, you really want to have regular full
> backups as part of your plan to reduce data transferred over your wan.
> An incremental backup will transfer changed data from the previous
> full or incremental of a lower level.

Can backuppc be configured to transfer changed data from the previous
incremental of the *same* level, or would this require a patch?

> Regards,
> Adam

Pete.
-- 
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your thing.
                -- Warren Miller

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