> 
> > mixle wrote: 
> > Quote:
> > Does BackupPC redownload all files to make a new "full" download, or does 
> > it simply "fill in" the last good full backup and all incrementals since? 
> > 
> > The host I'm backing up takes 2+ days to backup, so it would be great if it 
> > could just fill in + move forward rather than download all again. 
> > 
> > I'm really impressed with the ease of use of this software! It's running 
> > nicely on my DNS-323 (had to turn compression off though, because it was 
> > taking years to backup otherwise). 
> > 
> > 1.18 MB/s (not sure what other people are getting for speed on these 
> > things). 
> 
> 
> This depends on your XferMethod. The smb/tar methods do transfer 
> everything for a full and rebuild the whole tree. This is the only way 
> to find deletions and the new locations of old files under renamed 
> directories. The rsync/rsyncd methods only transfer the differences 
> since the last full (but need more RAM while doing it). See the docs 
> for IncrLevels if you want to base incrementals on previous incrementals.


I believe I may have worded my question wrong.

Is BackupPC capable of making 'synthetic' full backups by combining a previous 
full backup and subsequent incrementals to form a new 'synthetic' full backup 
(synthetic since it has not been copied again from the host)?

Sorry if I misunderstood your response.

Unfortunately RAM is critically small on my DNS-323. :(

Thanks for your reply Les.

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