What about with multiple full backups, say your full backup is 50gig and you
do a full backup once a week, will mean each full backup will use 50gigs of
space? Or does the pool do some other linking between the data contained in
each full backup?
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Christian Völker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Yohoo!
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> |> I keep repeating this, so you might all be bored, but still:
> No, definetly not bored. For this it looks like it's too complicated :-\
>
> |> When you factor pooling into the equasion, this means that the
> difference
> |> between rsync full and incremental backups is smaller than for tar/smb
> |> backups, which is yet far smaller than for tape backups for instance.
> Or, the
> |> other way around, for tape backups the difference is obvious, for
> tar/smb you
> |> can still see it clearly, while for rsync backups you have to look
> through a
> |> microscope. But it's still the same difference, and it's still there.
> | I like that explanation! :-) IMHO it should go to the Wiki.
>
> I would prefer to have a more detailled explanation for this. As I want
> to understand what's going on it's not helpfull to compare things
> instead of giving examples.
>
> So WHAT it the difference between an rsync full and incremental backup?
> What CAN be the microscopic differences?
> Let's say I have a running Linux server which I back up through rsync
> with default settings and I already have one successful full backup.
>
> There are now two parts to look at:
> 1. The backup process itself
> 2. The stored backup
>
> So what are the differences now between a full and incremental one?
>
> Greetings
>
> Christian
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