yes, but what about 6 months from now when all the incrementals are gone? in that circumstance i would have to keep incremental backups forever. i really need to have a full backup available for the end of the month for a long period of time. i think i have a solution but i need a bit more help. i have another email started i will finish and send out.
On Nov 9, 2007 12:46 PM, Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. > > -- > Les Mikesell > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
