Hello Everyone, I've been using BackupPC in production and at home enviornments for the past couple years. It's a great program, but I'll add that it takes a while to get the hang of how it does things.
So here's my question. Is it necessary to take a full backup at a regular interval? I mean, can't BackupPC fill-in the incrementals to simulate a "full" then do a superficial compare of the backup directory tree against the client's directory tree (e.g., compare the date/time/size/attributes)? Sort of "flattening" an incremental? I want to do this because I'm currently setting up BackupPC to use rsync to keep backups of hosted website. By default, my backup policy is going to take a "full" backup every week. This is going to transfer 1GB of data every week... that's not ideal. The web host isn't going to like me, and it shouldn't be necessary for me to transfer that much data. I can think of other ways to rework the posting and backups of the website which would get around the backup issue, but it would introduce different workflow problems. I would think that once I've done one full-backup, I should *never* have to do a full backup again... is this possible? Thanks, -Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ 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/
