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Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsync incremental backup, makes a full backup instead of incremental

2009-08-24 05:53:41
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Rsync incremental backup, makes a full backup instead of incremental
From: Roman <roman AT epoint DOT ro>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:50:25 +0300
Hi Tino,

Thank you for your reply, this was very helpful and I should read more
carefully the manual :)

2009/8/24 Tino Schwarze <backuppc.lists AT tisc DOT de>:
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:39:28AM +0300, Roman wrote:
>
>> I have installed and configured BackupPC successfully, thank you for
>> this great software.
>> One small thing I may not fully understand:
>> I have made a full backup, but which contained only a few files (just
>> for testing), after this I setup all needed directories for the
>> backup, and all incremental backup's afterwards look like a full
>> backup. The question is: does backuppc incremental backups compare the
>> files only to the last full backup and does not compare also to the
>> last incremental backup? Seems like it does it like this.
>
> Look at the configuration setting $Conf{IncrLevels}
>
> It defaults to 1, so all incrementals will be based on the last full. If
> you configured, for example, 1 weekly full and want 6 incrementals each
> based on the previous, set
> $Conf{IncrLevels} = [1,2,3,4,5,6];
>
> It is a tradeoff: The 6th incremental might take very long since a lot
> of directories need to be checked which does a lot of I/O on the server.
> It might be faster to just transfer some more differences.
>
> Have a look at the explanation here:
> http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#item__conf_incrlevels_
>
> HTH,
>
> Tino.
>
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