On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:04 PM, John Rouillard <rouilj-backu...@renesys.com> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 07:51:13AM -0700, Mike Bydalek wrote: >> My question is, why did backups 13 and 14 backup all that data? Same >> with 2 and 7 for that matter. > > What level are your incremental backups? if backup 2 was at level 1 > and backup 7 was at level 1 (you use levels 1 2 3 4 5 6) and backup 13 > is back at level 1 that's kind of what I would expect since level 1 > backs up everything since since the last full. > > However 14 should be quite a bit less unelss it was also a level 1. > >> Below is my config. I'm still messing with the IncrLevels and have a >> super short period just to get some increments and all that going. > [...] >> $Conf{IncrLevels} = [ >> '1', >> '2', >> '3', >> '4', >> '5', >> '6' >> ]; >
After re-reading the documentation for {IncrLevels} again the configuration settings are starting to make sense. The only question I have left is, does creating a new "full" backup *have* to do the entire full backup again? Can't it just perform an increment and merge it to create a full? The reason I ask is I'm planning on moving this server off-site so it'll go over a WAN. Sending 250G over a 1M connection every week or two doesn't sound fun! Is this what $Conf{IncrFill} is supposed to handle? What I want is to basically perform a backup every day and keep 30 days of backups without doing another 'full' backup. I don't really care how many 'full' backups I have as long as I can restore from 29 days ago. Would these settings do the trick for that? $Conf{FullPeriod} = 30; $Conf{IncrPeriod} = 1; $Conf{IncrKeepCnt} = 30; $Conf{IncrLevels} = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ...... 30]; $Conf{IncrFill} = 1; This may start to get off topic, so I can start a new thread if needed. Thanks for your help! Regards, Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ 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/