I have looked for info on this but need a confirmation on some questions 
I have. I was using SMB for backing up a few XP machines and switched to 
Rsyncd on one of them. In looking at the backups there are some 
differences.

First SMB. When I look at a SMB backup (full or incremental) I see what 
looks like a full backup. As I understand it BackupPC has actually done 
an incremental backup and then filled the rest of the files in from 
previous incremental backup and the most recent full backup. Is this 
correct? When I do a restore then all I have to do is select the files I 
want in my last incremental backup and restore them.

Rsyncd. I am looking at the incremental backup in the admin and all I 
see are the incremental files. It looks like BackupPC is not filling in 
the latest incremental backup with the previous incrementals and the 
most recent full backup. IS this correct? To do a restore of a folder 
using Rsyncd I would need to start with my most recent full backup and 
then do restores working backwards until I find the most recent version? 
If I needed to restore a folder and had a full backup and 5 incremental 
then I would need to perform 6 restores? Is this correct or do I have a 
configuration setting wrong not allowing Rsyncd incrementals to be 
backfilled.

The upside to Rsyncd is it eats up less bandwidth than smb? You can also 
do remote restores on a user's machine (which is nice). Are there other 
upsides?

By the way...The machine that I changed to Rsyncd crashed. I was able to 
restore everything but an address book that was corrupt from the drive 
crash. Thanks so much to Craig and all the rest for doing this fine, 
fine little piece of software.

Eric

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