On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 01:38:19PM +0100, Bernhard Schneck wrote: > I've been using BackupPC (3.0.0) on Ubuntu (8.x) for a while > and am quite happy with it ... thanks a lot for the effort > to all BackupPC developers and contributors! > > I've started to look at the Archive functions. > > What I want to achieve is to do regular full and incremental > backups, while archiving the most recent full backups to > different media regularly (say once per week). > > As I understand, Archive will transfer the most recent backup > to the archive storage location ... even if this is an > incremental and the corresponding full backup has not been > archived (which makes the incremental more or less unusable > for disaster recovery purposes)
No, the archive you get from a full will be identical to the archive you get from an "incremental". The term "full backup" and "incremental backup" is only of interest during the data transfer phase from client to the BackupPC server. After that, all backups are treated (almost) the same with "gaps" in incrementals being automatically filled from the most recent incremental or full. I'm using the archive feature with a custom script to get archives on tape - the script checks which hosts to archive (based on last archive time), then creates the archive. When the script is finished (it's got an enforced timeout), Bacula picks up the archives and writes them to tape. HTH, Tino. -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." www.lichtkreis-chemnitz.de www.craniosacralzentrum.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It is the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Xq1LFB _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
