On 2/20/26 08:57, Shadrock Uhuru wrote:
hi everyone i'm using rsync incremental backup and i'm trying to understand which backups are full and which are incremental, my backup policy is 7 daily 4 weekly 12 monthly 1 yearly backup for the daily backups monday is a full backup and tuesday to sunday are incremental. is that the same for my weekly and monthly backups where the first week is a full backup and the following weeks are incremental backup of the previous week ? shadrock
As others have said, your question is way to ambiguous. I suspect I know what you are thinking, if I'm right, you are thinking wrong. But I have nothing to go on from your post. Done properly, rsync based backups can be a glorious combination of the best of both worlds -- moving data as if it was always incremental, but storing it as if it was always a full backup. this is how I do it, scaling from one little netbook backing up my home directory to an SD card to 500 machines and ~25TB of disk, the docs here might help you understand how it all works, even if you aren't going to use my script: https://holland-consulting.net/scripts/ibs/ I've installed this at a number of my employers over the years, and it has been a HUGE hit with the administrators because it is so bloomin' USEFUL, which is not something people usually say when talking about backups. Nick.
