On 07/08/15 08:39, xpac wrote:
> Basically I've got things set up where I run full backups every Friday, and 
> incrementals M-Thurs each week.  I want to keep enough backups on disk, that 
> I can go as far back as 2 months if need be.
>
> I originally set this up to keep 8 fulls, and 16 incrementals (2 months of 
> fulls but only 1 month of incrementals which could be a problem if a file was 
> created and deleted during the same week between 1-2 months ago).
>
> After doing some reading, I also realized that the incrementals are basically 
> differentials since I left them set at the default IncrLevels value of 1.
>
> So, if I wanted to keep the same philosophy, I would essentially just need to 
> bump up the number of incrementals to keep to 32 correct?
>
> Just wanted to make sure I'm understanding the use of incrementals with 
> BackupPC and of course that this makes logical sense.
>

All sounds reasonable to me. If you want more daily history, increase 
the number of incrementals, and they should use a similar amount of 
extra space as your existing full backups take (a little less, since 
they are more frequent, a full is an entire week of changes now, if you 
increase to 32 incrementals, each backup is only a days worth of changes).

Regards,
Adam

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Adam Goryachev Website Managers www.websitemanagers.com.au

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