On 07/08/15 08:39, xpac wrote: > Basically I've got things set up where I run full backups every Friday, and > incrementals M-Thurs each week. I want to keep enough backups on disk, that > I can go as far back as 2 months if need be. > > I originally set this up to keep 8 fulls, and 16 incrementals (2 months of > fulls but only 1 month of incrementals which could be a problem if a file was > created and deleted during the same week between 1-2 months ago). > > After doing some reading, I also realized that the incrementals are basically > differentials since I left them set at the default IncrLevels value of 1. > > So, if I wanted to keep the same philosophy, I would essentially just need to > bump up the number of incrementals to keep to 32 correct? > > Just wanted to make sure I'm understanding the use of incrementals with > BackupPC and of course that this makes logical sense. >
All sounds reasonable to me. If you want more daily history, increase the number of incrementals, and they should use a similar amount of extra space as your existing full backups take (a little less, since they are more frequent, a full is an entire week of changes now, if you increase to 32 incrementals, each backup is only a days worth of changes). Regards, Adam -- Adam Goryachev Website Managers www.websitemanagers.com.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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/
