Dear list members --
Found, downloaded and installed flexbackup earlier today, it's my first
foray in the world of backup systems. I did a full backup, and am
getting the concept of different backup levels, differential and
incrementals and so on... - thanks to an easy to use and not overloaded
backup tool.
I'm planning to back up to a pair of external USB drives - considering
tapes seem to be quite overpriced for a home user expecting to backup a
few dozen gigabytes. After moving a full backup to each disk, the most
logical strategy seems to be doing at least weekly differentials and
swapping disks, so even in the unlikely event of my system and one
backup disk failing I'd still have some stuff to be restored.
What I'm missing in flexbackup is some kind of logic that allows me to
purge backups of different levels. E.G. I'd like to keep at least one,
but not more than 2 full backups on a disk, and keeping all
differentials from the 2 full backups. Is there a way for flexbackup to
purge older backup levels automatically, or does one need to take care
of things outside? I picture I'd need differentials to a full backup
and all incrementals since the last differential - but any earlier
incrementals would be quite useless and only eating valuable disk
space.
Hope you guys would have a clue for me...
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