Hi, On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 09:36:44AM +0200, Sebastian Perkins wrote:
> We are new to backuppc (migrating from an old DAT tape based system to disk > based backup) and we have a question regarding full & incr backups. > > Our goal is to maintain 2 months of data off samba shares. > > We will be using the rsync option (better incremental possibilities). Is just > using incrementals OK ? (which means the first save will be a "full"). Or do > we need a "full" every month + incr every day just like on DAT (this amounts > to about 1To). ? Nils already wrote about the "full" backups with rsync. You need full backups to make expiring work. Only full backups are expired, together with their incremental backups. So I would suggest doing a weekly full. Also note that because of the pooling in BackupPC, unmodified files are only stored once. As an extreme example: If you've got an ISO on every client, it will be stored only once on the backup server since pooling works across all backups. HTH, Tino. -- "What we resist, persists." (Zen saying) www.craniosacralzentrum.de www.forteego.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. 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/
