Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
>>> If you're running >=v3 the following option will make all the incrementals
>>> sync against the previous incremental, instead of the last full. This keeps
>>> them from growing quite as quickly. (It's the behavior you expect from
>>> rsync).
>>>
>>> $Conf{IncrLevels} = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6];
>>>
>> I was under the assumption that BackupPC never transfers the same file
>> twice unless it changed after the last backup (either full or
>> incremental), even in the 2.x version. Was that an invalid assumption
>> on my part?
>
> That is incorrect. Backuppc does its incrementals against the last full; not
> against the previous incremental (unless you set $Conf{IncrLevels} = [1, 2,
> 3, 4, 5, 6];).
So is it correct to say that when using rsync, its probably more
efficient to just turn off incrementals and always do fulls?
Cheers,
Raman Gupta
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