On 5/6/2010 5:09 PM, Brian Mathis wrote:
>
> Good point.  I've used rsync many times in the past and our current
> custom solution uses the rsync hard link tricks to get the same kind
> of advantages.  I'm looking to get onto a less custom solution, hence
> backuppc.
>
> It sounds like you're saying I can probably achieve a similar effect
> by doing a level 0 every 28 days and then doing weekly incrementals
> relative to the level 0, and avoiding the multi-tiered level system I
> outlined?
>
> I was probably thinking that a full will always take up a full amount
> of disk space, but you're right and I sort of forgot it all goes into
> the pool and gets deduped anyway.

Or even weekly fulls unless you are trying to avoid the impact on the 
target hosts.  And you might look at the exponential expiry to keep some 
number of very old runs.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com



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