Brendan Simon writes:
> I notice that if I do a full backup the summary page for the host
> reports filled=yes, whereas if I do a incremental backup the page
> reports filled=no.
>
> Is that correct? The incremental backup succeeds without any errors so
> filled should be "yes" shouldn't it ???
Les' exaplanation is exactly right.
"Filled" refers to whether the actual backup is filled in with
all the files on disk. $Conf{IncrFill} should be set to 0, so
incrementals are not filled. Fulls are always filled of course.
Any browsing or restore operations automatically fill in the incremental
backup, no matter what the "Filled" status is. (Actually, very early
versions of BackupPC filled the incrementals instead of handling it
on browse/restore. That wasn't a good tradeoff in terms of disk IO.)
The "filled" status is relevant for removing older full (filled) backups.
An unfilled backup requires that the filled backup it depends upon to
be kept.
In terms of longer term features, will multi-level incrementals, and
the possibility with rsync of never doing a full after the first one,
at some point incrementals might get filled so that the earlier backups
can be deleted. But for now all incrementals are unfilled.
Craig
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