BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] Only Incremental Backups

2014-04-24 15:37:54
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Only Incremental Backups
From: <backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 15:36:02 -0400
Bowie Bailey wrote at about 14:38:26 -0400 on Thursday, April 24, 2014:
 > If your main concern is Internet usage, the best scenario is actually to 
 > do only full backups.  The main reason to do incrementals at all is that 
 > they run faster since they only look at timestamps instead of actually 
 > comparing the file data.

To be pedantic, timestamps and file size (which comes for free once
you are stat'ing to get the timestamps).

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