Hy Carl, > actually, I believe that the fulls are expired when BOTH: > - all incrementals depending on them expire > - the retention period for fulls expires
you say you *believe* that BackupPC is working like above, which would be very intelligent and would make sense. Still, is there anybody who can confirm what Carl and I are believing? > > So, wouldn't it make more sense to retain 5 FULL backups? > > If you retain 5 full (weekly) backups, but only 4 weeks of > incrementals, you will not have incrementals for that last > week. (As I understand it, and how I belive things used to work). It woulnd't bother much, as I want to have *4 full weeks* of backups, this would be ok! ;-) Thanks, Flavio Boniforti PIRAMIDE INFORMATICA SAGL Via Ballerini 21 6600 Locarno Switzerland Phone: +41 91 751 68 81 Fax: +41 91 751 69 14 URL: http://www.piramide.ch E-mail: fla...@piramide.ch ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now & Save for Velocity, the Web Performance & Operations Conference from O'Reilly Media. Velocity features a full day of expert-led, hands-on workshops and two days of sessions from industry leaders in dedicated Performance & Operations tracks. Use code vel09scf and Save an extra 15% before 5/3. http://p.sf.net/sfu/velocityconf _______________________________________________ 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/
