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Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups Schedule

2015-04-06 09:51:42
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups Schedule
From: Bowie Bailey <Bowie_Bailey AT BUC DOT com>
To: backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2015 09:49:28 -0400
On 4/3/2015 4:01 PM, MineHost.LT admin wrote:
Hello,

How to configure backuppc Schedule for this:
1-day - full

2-day - empty
3-day - empty
4-day - incremental

5-day - empty
6-day - empty
7-day - incremental

.....

14-day (or 15-day) - clear 1 day full and create new full

Need ONE full on 2 week and time to time incremental

I resetup
FullPeriod - 13.97
FullKeepCnt  - 1
FullKeepCntMin  - 1

IncrPeriod - 2.97
IncrKeepCnt  - 12

But I see backupams:
Backup# Type Filled Level Start Date Duration/mins Age/days Server Backup Path
3 full yes 0 3/7 10:46 1010.1 27.2 /var/lib/BackupPC//pc/www/3
4 incr no 1 3/10 12:00 545.8 24.2 /var/lib/BackupPC//pc/www/4
5 incr no 1 3/13 13:00 497.3 21.1 /var/lib/BackupPC//pc/www/5
6 full yes 0 3/16 23:19 1114.2 17.7 /var/lib/BackupPC//pc/www/6
7 incr no 1 3/20 11:24 164.9 14.2 /var/lib/BackupPC//pc/www/7
8 incr no 1 3/24 06:04 275.8 10.4 /var/lib/BackupPC//pc/www/8
9 incr no 1 3/27 09:36 204.3 7.3 /var/lib/BackupPC//pc/www/9
10 full yes 0 4/2 13:55 511.9 1.1 /var/lib/BackupPC//pc/www/10
(sorry FullPeriod - change from 7)
But why one FULL and two incremental then full, why not full -> 10x incremental...

I'm not sure why the fulls are different time periods (9 days then 16 days) unless you have been messing with the FullPeriod between runs or something caused the last full to fail for a couple of days before it succeeded.

You will not be able to keep only one full the way you are doing it.  Incrementals depend on the previous full, so full backups will be kept until the incrementals that rely on them are removed.  However, due to the pooling of duplicate files, keeping extra fulls will not result in using much extra storage, so it shouldn't be a problem.

To be more specific, you are keeping 36 days worth of incrementals, so you need about 36 days worth of full backups to support them.  In practice, this means that BPC will need to keep 3-4 fulls to support the incrementals depending on the exact timing.

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