On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 09:39, Michael Helmling wrote: > Hello, > I set up backuppc to back up my home directory (currently only this, I want > to > test the software). > > At first I did a full backup with tar, then switched over to rsync. Now every > incremental backup he transfers the whole directory again (about 4 > Gigabytes), even though only a few megabytes change. Is this normal? Is it > because the full backup was made with tar and not rsync? > I am searching for a backup solution for about 30 computers in a LAN, and if > every time the whole stuff would be transferred, it'd be unuseable for me.
I don't think that is supposed to happen even the first time but it should definitely stop if you force a full backup after the change. Rsync incrementasl will tranfer everything changed since the last full, though, so you'll want to do fulls fairly often. 30 machines shouldn't be a problem if the full runs don't all happen on the same night. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
