On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 02:08:31PM +0900, Peter Wright wrote: > > > Idealy I would love the system to be able to sit in place and make > > > regular incrementals of the data with the most minimal of network > > > traffic requried to backup the data. > > > Contrary to popular belief, you really want to have regular full > > backups as part of your plan to reduce data transferred over your wan. > > An incremental backup will transfer changed data from the previous > > full or incremental of a lower level. > > Can backuppc be configured to transfer changed data from the previous > incremental of the *same* level, or would this require a patch?
Why would you want to do that? The previous incremental of the same level is a lot older and you'd need to transfer a lot more changes. In default configuration (IIRC), your backups with weekly full would look like this: - level-0 = full - level-1 incr - level-2 incr - level-3 incr - level-1 incr (based on full) - level-2 incr - level-3 incr The second level-1 incremental will transfer all changes since the full backup. Tino. -- "What we nourish flourishes." - "Was wir nähren erblüht." www.lichtkreis-chemnitz.de www.craniosacralzentrum.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
