On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 10:12:19AM -0600, Russell R Poyner wrote: > I'm in the process of building a BackupPC set up for about 200 users. > The possibility of "incrementals forever" that looks to be available in > V4 is quite appealing.
Be careful with that. Some versions of Excel at least have a bug that causes the contents of the (shared) file to be changed but the modification date isn't. http://blogs.technet.com/b/the_microsoft_excel_support_team_blog/archive/2012/08/10/quot-date-modified-quot-time-stamps-on-shared-excel-files-stored-on-a-network-drive-will-not-update-correctly-after-saving-and-closing-the-file.aspx The only things that will save you in that scenario is a full backup. I had one case where the file was changed on a monday and the 6 incremental backups after that didn't have the change. The weekly full (7 days later) did however. Having full backups that byte compare the data (rather than pruning by looking at data metadata) on a regular basis I claim is a best practice. -- -- rouilj John Rouillard System Administrator Renesys Corporation 603-244-9084 (cell) 603-643-9300 x 111 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WatchGuard Dimension instantly turns raw network data into actionable security intelligence. It gives you real-time visual feedback on key security issues and trends. Skip the complicated setup - simply import a virtual appliance and go from zero to informed in seconds. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=123612991&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ 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/
