Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental backups

2016-11-01 Thread Benjamin Redling
On 11/01/2016 13:07, Adam Goryachev wrote: > On 1/11/16 21:59, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: >> 2016-11-01 11:35 GMT+01:00 Johan Ehnberg : >>> Changes in BackupPC 4 are especially geared towards allowing very high >>> full periods. The most recent backup being always filled (as opposed to >>> rsnaps

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental backups

2016-11-01 Thread Gandalf Corvotempesta
2016-11-01 13:07 GMT+01:00 Adam Goryachev : > Ummm, silly question, but why would you want to delete a backup? I don't want to delete a backups, but when things gonna bad, this could happen. I had some issue with Bacula where a full backup was corrupted/unreadable and I've lost all backups for tha

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental backups

2016-11-01 Thread Johan Ehnberg
On 11/01/2016 02:07 PM, Adam Goryachev wrote: > On 1/11/16 21:59, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: >> 2016-11-01 11:35 GMT+01:00 Johan Ehnberg : >>> Changes in BackupPC 4 are especially geared towards allowing very high >>> full periods. The most recent backup being always filled (as opposed to >>> rsn

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental backups

2016-11-01 Thread Adam Goryachev
On 1/11/16 21:59, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: > 2016-11-01 11:35 GMT+01:00 Johan Ehnberg : >> Changes in BackupPC 4 are especially geared towards allowing very high >> full periods. The most recent backup being always filled (as opposed to >> rsnapshots hardlink pointing to the first), a full ba

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental backups

2016-11-01 Thread Gandalf Corvotempesta
2016-11-01 11:35 GMT+01:00 Johan Ehnberg : > Changes in BackupPC 4 are especially geared towards allowing very high > full periods. The most recent backup being always filled (as opposed to > rsnapshots hardlink pointing to the first), a full backup is not > required to maintain a recent and comple

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental backups

2016-11-01 Thread Johan Ehnberg
Hi, On 11/01/2016 10:37 AM, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: > 2016-11-01 9:26 GMT+01:00 Adam Goryachev > : >> Easy, configure your keepfull/incremental and your full/incremental >> periods so that they will match your desired retention periods for your >> needs. >> >> Make sure you use rsync (ie, sa

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental backups

2016-11-01 Thread Gandalf Corvotempesta
2016-11-01 9:26 GMT+01:00 Adam Goryachev : > Easy, configure your keepfull/incremental and your full/incremental > periods so that they will match your desired retention periods for your > needs. > > Make sure you use rsync (ie, same as rsnapshot). > > Use checksum caching > > Then, after your seco

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental backups

2016-11-01 Thread Adam Goryachev
On 1/11/16 19:03, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: > How can I accomplish this with backuppc 4 ? I don't want to create > "full" backups, as this woìuld require 2 days for some servers, except > for the very fist backup for that host or if the full backup is > missing > > Easy, configure your keepful

[BackupPC-users] Incremental backups

2016-11-01 Thread Gandalf Corvotempesta
One of the biggest advantage by using rsnapshot (in my own envirnment) is the absence of "backup levels". There isn't any "full" or "incremental", all backups are incremental and common files are hardlinked back to the first backup. This is very usefull for us, as we can delete every snapshot or p