Rob Ogle wrote: > 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? > >
If it's one big file that changes you won't see any gain from pooling - backuppc will see each version as a unique file and make copies accordingly - incremental or full doesn't matter each will have a full copy of the file. Doing the -1 and 1 thing will get you between 1 and 2 copies depending on where in the cycle you catch it. However I would be really worried about a database where I only had one backup - if you get a systemic problem that takes more than 24 hours to detect you are screwed. Disk space is cheap, 3.5GB of SQL data probably isn't - I'd buy a bigger disk. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
