That's Holger...  Sorry about the misspelling.

Rob Owens wrote:
> See this thread, and in particular, Holgier's response:
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=46922898.2040102%40bio-chemvalve.com&forum_name=backuppc-users
> 
> -Rob
> 
> Pablo Fernandez wrote:
>> 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
>>
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