komodo writes: > Thanks, maybe i'm blind, but i don't see where is this written, there is only > incrperiod and full period, but i don't want any full backups at all,except > the first one ,so how should i configure this ? Should i set fullperiod to > extremely high number ? I am using rsync so i think the age fo files is > irrelevant, beacuse if i am right, then when i am using rsync, old files are > deleted automaticaly.
You can specify a long FullPeriod. In 3.x you can also specify IncrLevels for multi-level incrementals. However, you still should do a Full now and then (eg: monthly). There are several reasons for this: - A full sets the baseline (starting point) for the future incrementals. Without a new full the prior or original full can never be deleted. - A long chain of multi-level incrementals (one depending upon the last) takes linear time (ie: increasingly more time) as more incrementals are taken since every one has to be merged to get the correct "view" of the current backup to use as a refenence for the next incremental. This makes future incrementals slower. - A full backup actually checks the contents of every file, rather than only relying on meta data (time stamps, size, uid/gid, mode, or new/deleted in the case of rsync). If you have a file that is modified without changing the meta data then an incremental will miss it. With rsync the full doesn't use a lot more network bandwidth than an incremental. Craig ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
