On 12/22/2010 1:06 PM, Timothy J Massey wrote:
>
> > The more I think about it the more I understand how much "magic" must be
> > going on in the backuppc backend!
>
> Actually not that much. Much of the magic is actually in rsync; the only
> real "magic" in BackupPC is that it can detect when a
Andreas Piening wrote on 12/22/2010 09:08:28
AM:
> One additional question: You say that the number of incremental backups
> will slow down the backup process, which makes sense to me because
> backuppc needs to iterate over all incremental backups. But which
settings
> are the "best" if I want
Hi Timothy,
thank you very much for your reply. You're right: I don't want to minimize
the disk activity, but only the amount of data which is transfered over
the network.
I allready use rsync as the backup-method, so it seems I'm allready fine
with these settings.
One additional question: You sa
Andreas Piening wrote on 12/21/2010 03:33:18
PM:
> Because I really like the benefits from backuppc (compression, re-
> using backups of multiple occuring single files over different
> hosts, great web-interface...) I ask myself how I can get backuppc
> to mimic this behavior from dirvish. Is
Dear backuppc-users-list,
I use backuppc to backup some of my customers servers and dirvish to backup
some others. The thing that I really like about dirvish (apart from it's easy
configuration), is that it creates only one initial snapshot and than unlimited
incremental backups based on hard-l
