On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 11:35 AM, Gandalf Corvotempesta
<gandalf.corvotempe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2017-09-01 18:29 GMT+02:00 Les Mikesell <lesmikes...@gmail.com>:
>> Unless you have a huge turnover in data, keeping more backups will not
>> take a lot more space on the server. There is only one copy kept of
>> each unique file, no matter how many backups you keep. And, since it
>> is compressed it will take less space than the original copy.
>> That's kind of the point of using backuppc.
>
> This is the same with rsnapshot that i'm currently using and i'm
> running out of space.
> Yes, bpc is able to compress data, but my biggest issue is with log
> files, that change every day
> and every server is creating about 20-30GB of new log files per day.
Large, changing files can be a problem, but log files tend to be
highly compressible.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikes...@gmail.com
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