Ok...so...since the beef of my backup is a sql database backup file that is 3.5GB. The reason I've got so much data is because the I have about 8 copies of it. One for the full and one of the incremental of each day between fulls. Right?
If so...how do I tweak my settings so that I only have one copy of it? Set incremental to -1 and full to 1? -----Original Message----- From: John Pettitt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 5:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: 'Les Mikesell'; [email protected] Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Deleted Host Rob Ogle wrote: > Thanks! > > I changed those settings, restarted the box, and ran BackupPC_nightly. > My directory size hasn't changed. Should I just wait a few days to see if > the magic happens on it's own? > > > > Unless your machine changes *a lot* each week the directory size won't change much. This is becasue backuppc pools the files. When a new full backup happes if the file already exists it just gets linked taking no additional disk space - this is why the directory doesn't grow by a huge amout with each full. The flip side of this is when a full gets deleted only the files that were unique to that full actually get removed from the disk - if the same file is used in another full or an incremental it stays in the pool and the disk space used is not recovered. So unless this weeks full is radically different from last weeks full you're not going to see a big space drop when last weeks goes away. John > -----Original Message----- > From: Les Mikesell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 3:22 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [email protected]; 'John Pettitt' > Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Deleted Host > > Rob Ogle wrote: > >> Ok. So... >> If I want to keep one full per week and increment once each day between >> fulls- is this what my settings should be? >> >> FullPeriod: 6.97 >> FullKeepCnt: 1 >> FullKeepCntMin: 1 >> FullAgeMax: 365 >> >> IncrPeriod: 0.97 >> IncrKeepCnt: 8 >> IncrKeepCntMin: 8 >> IncrAgeMax: 1 >> IncrLevels: 1 >> > > > You'll end up with overlapping fulls, which will probably happen in any > case since the old one wouldn't be deleted until the new one completes. > I think that 8'th day of incrementals will keep the old one around > one more day. Space-wise it probably doesn't matter as long as it is > gone before the next full happens. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ 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/
