Jacob writes:

> If this is really the way backuppc does incremental backups, I think
> backuppc should be a bit more incremental with its incremental
> backups. Instead of comparing against the last full, it should
> compare against the last full and incremental backups. This would
> solve this problem and make backuppc more efficient anyway, AFAIK.

Each incremental uses the backup of the next lower level as the
reference point.  By default $Conf{IncrLevels} is 1, so every
incremental depends on the last full.  Setting $Conf{IncrLevels}
to a set of increasing values makes each incremental depend on the
last.

Craig

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