dan wrote:
> anyone know how many levels of incrementals can be used?
>
> im thinking of manually scheduling( via cron ) monthly backups and just
> having the scheduler do incrementals up to 32, also changing the
> "FullPeriod" to 32 so that no automatic full backups are done, and that
> i have a full backup on a very specific day.
>
> what brings this question on is that sometimes im asked to restore the
> data from 'march' for instance and i need a backup that was done after
> business ends on march 31. backuppc wants to do them on a weekly basis,
> which does not line up with months very well.
If you do at least an incremental run every day the timing of when the
fulls vs. incrementals were taken doesn't have any relationship to what
you can restore. The restore operation will merge the previous full
with the incremental of the day you choose and generate the correct
state. If you use the smb or tar methods you might end up with some
extra files that were deleted between runs or miss something that reset
the file timestamps, but rsync will get those things right.
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