Adam Williams wrote: > Due to the nature of my business, I'd like to have BackupPC perform one > full backup and then have incremental backups continue indefinitely. Is > the only way to do this, is to set the parameters in config.pl to very > large numbers? > > $Conf{FullKeepCntMin} = 1; > $Conf{FullAgeMax} = 9999999999999; > $Conf{IncrKeepCnt} = 9999999999999; > $Conf{IncrKeepCntMin} = 9999999999999; > $Conf{IncrAgeMax} = 9999999999999; >
That's generally a bad idea. Incremental backups with non-rsync methods won't catch new files created by methods that maintain old timestamps or the new locations of files under renamed directories. Rysnc incrementals either copy everything that has changed since the previous full if you don't use incremental levels or they have to do a lot of extra work to merge all of the accumulated differences in the incrementals if you do. Backuppc doesn't store duplicate copies and if you use rsync, doesn't transfer files you had in the last full, so there is not a big downside to doing fulls weekly or so. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ 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/