Please pardon my ignorance. I have always been dense when it comes to  
backups, and I am hoping that someone can simply tell me the  
appropriate schedule for what I want to do. I basically want to mimic  
Apple's Time Machine settings. I want an initial full backup and then  
simply a backup of changed files every X amount of time (their  
interval is hourly, mine would be daily). I don't want old backups  
deleted until the drive begins to run out of space. Time Machine keeps  
hourly backups for 24 hours and then rolls them into a 24 hour backup.  
It keeps 7 24 hour back-ups (a weeks worth), and then rolls them into  
weekly backups. Is this possible with BackupPC?

Right now it has the default settings. Also, as I understand things, a  
BackupPC full backup is only the files that have changed since the  
last full backup. My question is then why do incremental backups, why  
not just always do full backups. Is it because of the method to  
determine if a file has changed? Timestamp vs. block checksum in Rsync  
for example?

-- 
-a

"Ideally, a code library must be immediately usable by naive  
developers, easily customized by more sophisticated developers, and  
readily extensible by experts." -- L. Stein


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