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 >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/
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