The idea for incremental backup is because the servers' files will be
backed up incrementally as well. I was hoping that the
full/incremental cycle for the files could be followed by the db as
well.

On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 13:25:06 +0800, Winelfred Pasamba
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i guess the requirement is "daily snapshots".
> "incremental backups" are to ease on storage space requirement.
> 
> however incremental backups still need the base backup right? and
> depend on some other incremental backups back the time line.  and how
> easy is it to recover that?
> 
> why not just do daily whole database or table snapshots?  then
> compress them.  then take the second mile by cron'ingly and
> passwordlessly (ssh) copying them to at least another host.
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