Re: [BackupPC-users] Possible to mimic the "dirvish" behaviour of rsync?

Andreas Piening <andreas.piening AT gmail DOT com> wrote on 12/21/2010 03:33:18 PM: > Because I really like the benefits from backuppc (compression, re- > using backups of multiple occuring single files over different > hosts, great web-interface...) I ask myself how I can get backuppc > to mimic this behavior from dirvish. Is it enough to screw up > "FullPeriod" and "FullAgeMax" to let's say 9999999? > Since I'm not fine with this idea which seems to conflict with the > way backuppc operates, I ask for assistance.

This is not necessary. While a full backup will *read* every file on the target, it will not *transfer* every file from the target: it will only transfer changed files (and only the changes, at that).

In other words, unless you are trying to avoid disk activity on the target (which is *very* unlikely), simply using rsync as the transfer mechanism will give you what you're looking for.

Don't mangle the full and incremental settings. The longer between fulls, the longer the incrementals will take: they will have more and more files to check every day. A weekly full resets the changed file count, and it will only transfer the needed files for that time.

Timothy J. Massey
Out of the Box Solutions, Inc.

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