Please pardon my ignorance. I have always been dense when it comes to backups, and I am hoping that someone can simply tell me the appropriate schedule for what I want to do. I basically want to mimic Apple's Time Machine settings. I want an initial full backup and then simply a backup of changed files every X amount of time (their interval is hourly, mine would be daily). I don't want old backups deleted until the drive begins to run out of space. Time Machine keeps hourly backups for 24 hours and then rolls them into a 24 hour backup. It keeps 7 24 hour back-ups (a weeks worth), and then rolls them into weekly backups. Is this possible with BackupPC?
Right now it has the default settings. Also, as I understand things, a BackupPC full backup is only the files that have changed since the last full backup. My question is then why do incremental backups, why not just always do full backups. Is it because of the method to determine if a file has changed? Timestamp vs. block checksum in Rsync for example? -- -a "Ideally, a code library must be immediately usable by naive developers, easily customized by more sophisticated developers, and readily extensible by experts." -- L. Stein ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p _______________________________________________ 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/
