I'm new to BackupPC and looking to keep long term snapshots. I've been reading through the docs and I think the "levels" concept will do what I want it to, but I still have some outstanding questions.
I'm looking to use an 84 day cycle where: - Day 0 is the full backup (level 0) - Day 7, 14, 21 are incrementals relative to D0 (level 7) - Day 28 is an incremental to D0 (level 1) - Day 35, 42, 29 are incrementalss relative to D28 (level 7) - Day 56 is an incremental to D28 (level 2) - Day 63, 70, and 77 are incrementals relative to D56 (level 7) - Day 84 is the next full backup (level 0) There are no daily incrementals I think the above example means I need the config: FullPeriod = 83.97 IncrPeriod = 6.97 IncrLevels = [7, 7, 7, 1, 7, 7, 7, 2, 7, 7, 7] Am I missing anything in that config? The next piece is incremental expiration. I would like to keep at most six level 7 backups, but keep the level 0, 1, and 2 "forever". I only see IncrKeepCnt which seems to be an all-or-nothing expiration number that doesn't take levels into account. Is this possible? I expect each full backup to be large, and I'm hoping that this sort of scheme will make the best use of disk space and file redundancy, while keeping a long timeline of snapshots. Suggestions are welcome. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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/