On 3/1/2010 3:18 PM, anethema wrote:
>
>
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>>
>> Pool matching is done based on the file content, not the name.  Backuppc
>> won't know what you mean by 'corrupted', but if the content is
>> different, it becomes a different pool entry, not linked to existing
>> ones with different content.
>
>
> Yeah I was just worried that if you end up with some FAT/HDD issues on your 
> backup drive, and it corrups one file in the pool, it will corrupt it for 
> every single full or incremental backup that you have, requiring the next 
> backup to fix it.
>
> So the only difference between incremental and full is the method of veryfing 
> if the data has changed? On the backup drive they end up identical anyways 
> (except a full is like a filled incremental) ?

Yes - it takes a bit longer to do an rsync full because it reads all the 
data on the target, but it doesn't take much more bandwidth. And a full 
becomes the base comparison for the next run where incrementals will 
normally transfer all changes from the last full unless you have set up 
incremental 'levels'.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com


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