Hi and thanks for the reply.

>> Every day (except sunday) a procedure stores in this folder a 120GB file.
>> The name of the file is the day name.
>>
>> So, in a week, i have 6 different files generated (about 720 GB).
>> Every week the files are overwritten by the procedure.
...
>> i'll have :
>> on sunday the full backup -> 720 GB
>> on monday the incremental backup  -> 720 GB (the full backup) plus 120
>> GB (the new monday file)
>> on tuesday the incremental backup  -> 840 GB (the full backup plus
>> incremental) plus 120 GB (the new tuesday file)
>>
>> and so on, for a total of 1440 GB (the double of the effective disk
>> space needed).
...

> I don't think there is a good way to handle this in backuppc.  Can you
> change the procedure so the current daily file is created in a directory
> by itself and older ones rotated to a different directory?  Then you
> could do a full of the one holding the current file every day and store
> as many as you want.


Maybe that's the best solution, but that procedure is not open source...
I can eventually do an additional script (and schedule it) that does the job.

> I think is better that you changer your xfermetoth to rsyncd

Also this is a good solution; but i'd like to maintain the backup
"agentless"....

Thanks
M

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