On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 08:02:56AM -0400, Andrei Stebakov wrote: > Now it looks like every incremental backup is not different from a full > backup as it takes almost the same space on disk as a full backup. I > thought it should only backup the delta...
I think that while a delta is backed up, BackupPC then uses hard links to the files from the last backup in order to fill out the backup so that it looks like a full copy. I also think this is part of BackupPC's pooling mechanism. For comparison, I theoretically have 1terabyte of data backed up, but it's actually only consuming about 120-130gigabytes of storage on my backup server, thanks to BackupPC's data pooling. Regards, Msquared... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
