I ues a backup system before that had a "incremental forever" backup policy. The first "incremental" was really a full, and after that, like BackupPC with rsync, it scanned for changes, and only backedup what it needed to. Unless you forced it, you never did (or needed to) do a full backup again. Thi other backup system uses a database to keep its information like MD5 and permissions, etc, information to know if the file really did change.
Logically that is what it seems like backuppc is doing. But it really does do an effective full and incremental like other backup techniques, as I understand. Could someone straighten me out as to what is different here? ... OR better, tell me where to Read The Fine Manual to explain this level of detail! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ 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/
