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Hi,
I've been using BackupPC for many years. I'm currently using V4.
A few of the servers that are being backed up take many hours to run a
full backup, which can modestly impact the end users of those servers.
Currently my FullPeriod value is set at the default 6.97 days. Since V4
uses reverse-delta, I should be able to stretch out the FullPeriod to a
much longer length of time. What is a reasonable FullPeriod value?
The documentation mentions infinite incrementals. Is this realistic?
If I go with a very large FullPeriod, let's say 1000, do I need to
change any of my incremental values such as IncrKeepCnt or IncrAgeMax?
I realize that there are trade-offs between backup times and restore
times. I've never had to do a full restore, and rarely have to do large
restores, so I'm OK with a longer restore time if it can keep my backup
times faster. Lost data is obviously a no-go, but if the reverse-delta
process is reliable, I would prefer to minimize the full backups to a
few times a year.
BTW, FillPeriod is set to 0. My understanding is that the only
difference between using FullPeriod and FillPeriod is cosmetic/verbage.
Is that correct?
Thanks for all the great work that has gone into creating, maintaining,
and supporting BackupPC.
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