Les Mikesell wrote: > Jason M. Kusar wrote: > >>> If you use rsync as the transport you never actually transfer >>> unchanged files again - you only make a pass over the files >>> comparing block checksums. This takes some time/cpu at each end but >>> not a lot of bandwidth. >>> >> So that means that even a full backup uses the old backup as the >> basis for the transfer? I assume also then that files deleted off of >> the server will not be deleted off the backup since the default rsync >> options don't include any of the delete options. Is there a way to >> fix this? > > If you have the time for the file checksumming, just do rsync fulls > every time. This will reconstruct the backup file tree without the > deleted files. > So are there any other options I need to add to rsync? Also, to do all fulls, do I just set the FullPeriod to be equal to or lower than IncrPeriod?
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