-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Sebastian Perkins wrote: > > >>>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. > > Is there a link to the paper/howto ? We are mainly backuping samba > shares off servers so optimising identical files won't be too great. > > Our total full backup amounts to about 300Gb of compressed data, + the > incr (a few Gb per day). If I stick to a full backup every week, and be > capable of restoring 2 months of data, our 2,8 To NAS might blow up ? :o) > > We could bring this down to 1 month...
Not really, since each "incremental" is only "a few G", that implies you need 300G + 60 X 3G = 480G total for two months incrementals.... Remember, just because you take a full backup, doesn't mean you need a full backup worth of storage space, because 95% of the files in this full backup are identical to last weeks full backup! Hope I didn't mis-understand what you were saying above... Regards, Adam - -- Adam Goryachev Website Managers www.websitemanagers.com.au -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIRkjlGyoxogrTyiURAqPkAJ4pb9NFZ4cD1QP2NgUi706CIUmNnwCfSwYK bSEtp5f8IL9D+8Qe7HvXEVk= =I+va -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ 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/
