I'm preparing to implement BackupPC as an off-site backup of a fairly large storage medium (~100 GB of data), using the rsync transport. Lets assume that to get my first full backup, I do not want to copy that data to a USB hard drive and mail it to the BackupPC location.
My concern becomes that a full over-the-internet backup will take quite a lot of days. Are there any special precautions I need to take in order to ensure that file transfers don't get "wasted" (eg, after 3 days of transferring files, the internet connection goes down, but the full backup did not complete). I think BackupPC retains and re-uses partial full backups. But what happens in the case of multiple partial full backups? I don't think partial incremental backups get retained, but correct me if I'm wrong. Do I need to configure BackupPC to perform only full backups until the initial full completes? Or is BackupPC smart enough to not try an incremental until a complete full backup has been done? Thanks for your help. -Rob ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
