Bharat Mistry wrote:
> I'm trying to understand the various seeetings I need to make to achieve
> this and a bit confused.
>
> I'm backing up 9 PC's with BackupPC
>
> I have been asked to make sure ALL hosts keep at least 3 months of Full
> backups and assocaited incremental
Do you need all daily incrementals here or just a few weeks, then weekly
fulls going back in time?
> We are taking about around 5-20Gb in most cases - I don't think space is
> an issue with 1Tb drives (RAID1) on BackupPC box.
>
> Do I simply set the FullPeriod to 89.7
That's how often a new full will be taken. I'd leave that at a week.
> and FullKeepCnt to 3 ?
FullKeepCntMin=13 would keep 13 weekly fulls regardless of their age.
IncrKeepCntMin=78 would keep the corresponding daily incrementals (but
you may not really care about the older ones. These settings won't age
out even if backups stop being taken.
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