Pablo writes:
> Thanks for that information, this brings another question:
>
> What's the point of having multiple full backups? Wouldn't that be
> redundant with the information of a full backup and the incrementals?
Full backups provide two things:
- a reference point for the following incrementals,
- an accurate backup, in contrast to tar and smb incrementals that
don't detect deleted, renamed or newly-created files with old
modification times (eg: extracting a tar file).
If you keep an incremental, you need to keep the prior full (and also
prior lower-level incrementals). Therefore, full backups are the ones
you typically keep if you want longer-term history.
Craig
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