I have a couple clients backup nightly over the internet.
I seem to be doubting if the backups are actually being completed successfully.
Backuppc tells me they are, but the reason im questioning is because
it is suppose
to backup 10gigs a night (their sql db changes daily) and backup
completes in 40mins
over a max connection of 600kb.  The backup results do say its getting
about 50%
compression and the backup is only 5gigs when it complete.

How does backuppc handle databases? does it take just whats changed or if the DB
changes does it have to backup the entire thing again?

ive gotten 14 complete full backups (one a day) and they all have the
same results
completed successfully and are about 10gigs before compression and pooling.

its there a way i can make sure that things are working as planned?

i mean without doing a restore and testing what its backing up.

i just dont want to think im getting good backups when im really not.

im using scripts that use volume shadow to get backups of their windows servers
after hours.

it just seems like the backups are going way to fast with the speed of
the connection
and the size of the data.

thanks for any light you can shed on the subject.

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