On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 5:35 AM, Arnold Krille <arn...@arnoldarts.de> wrote: > Well, actually the comparison is done against the last backup of a lower > level.
Actually actually <g> from my understanding their isn't any difference at all in BackupPC's filesystem between the two if it hasn't been modified. In fact you can't even say that one instance of the file is "in" the last full backup as opposed to "in" the incremental sets. The only think that is "in" those sets is the hardlink, which even at the underlying OS level, are identical structures, with no distinction to one being the "master" as you would have say with symlinks. Now in the case of a file having been modified since the last full, of course then the two are different, and of course it only makes sense to compare to the newest one, since in BPCs storage model there isn't any benefit to distinguish between "incremental" vs "differential" sets. I seem to recall this may be an issue however with non-rsync transports, since I never use them I don't know. Confirmation of the above would be appreciated; I think not understanding these issues is a source of confusion for newcomers to BPC used to thinking in terms defined by traditional backup software regimes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev _______________________________________________ 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/
