Hi Got that, but if I use rsync would there be a reason to have a full backup every hour or so? Does it make sense to have a full once a month, level 1 incrementals every week, level 2 incrementals every day and level 3 incrementals every hour?
Best regards, Pablo On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 21:32 -0800, Craig Barratt wrote: > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
