On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 11:10 AM, Andreas Roth <andreas AT schosemail DOT de> 
wrote:

> I need to backup a couple of hosts using a low-bandwidth connection. The 
> daily diff on the filesystem is pretty small.
>
> Is it possible to have some kind of "synthetic backup" or "incremental 
> forever" - like some commercial products name it? They using differencial 
> backups to build a new full backup. Using this I could backup the host once 
> and then only doing differencial backups.

If you are using the rsync or rsyncd xfer methods there is not a great
deal of difference bandwidth-wise between an incremental or full
backup, although the full make take a much longer time to complete
since it checks all the files.   In either case, only the detected
differences will be transferred.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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