I use backuppc to backup several windows servers across the internet. Some of which are rather large and on slow internet connections. With frequent disconnects or other random errors it has taken almost a month to make a full backup of one client, but it finally happened (40gigs of data, exchange etc).
My question is that, since it takes so long to make a full backup and the incrementals go rather quickly, is it safe to do a full backup every 6 months or so and do incrementals every day? How would this impact restoring files? If im doing incremental backups everyday and they need to restore their exchange DB for some reason, would i still be able to get it with only 1 full backup and the rest incrementals? these are all level 1 backups. From what ive read level one backups backup changed from the last level 0 full backup. Im currently keeping 2 weeks of incrementals. What if i wanted to only get a full every 12 months and just use incrementals every day? Am i still covered? I just dont want to get into a situation where i "think" i have a good backup and then they actually need to restore something and i dont have adequate data to restore. Is there a better option to accomplish this? Im using rsyncd on the windows servers and have pre/post scripts that launch a volume shadow of the drives to backup, then i use exclude/include in backuppc to tell it what to backup. Ive slimmed the backup down as much as possible to only get important files. They are in a rural area and the internet speed is as fast as they can get it. Thanks for any help and/or advice. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ 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/