Holger Parplies wrote at about 00:15:59 +0200 on Friday, April 25, 2014: > Bowie Bailey wrote on 2014-04-24 16:08:49 -0400 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Only > Incremental Backups]: > > On 4/24/2014 3:52 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > > Bowie Bailey wrote at about 14:38:26 -0400 on Thursday, April 24, 2014:
> > > Not quite. > > > > > > Only data changed/added since the previous level incremental needs to be > > > transferred. > > not quite ;-). My turn to be pedantic. For incremental backups, that is true. > For *full* backups, the reference is the previous backup *of any level*. So a > full backup will *not* retransmit any changes the preceeding backup has > caught. I truly thought that was obvious even if my wording wasn't perhaps the clearest... :) When doing the next full, the object compared to is also the most recent incremental (since we were discussing the case where we are doing incrementals so a full follows an incremental)... but yeah I could have worded it better... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start Your Social Network Today - Download eXo Platform Build your Enterprise Intranet with eXo Platform Software Java Based Open Source Intranet - Social, Extensible, Cloud Ready Get Started Now And Turn Your Intranet Into A Collaboration Platform http://p.sf.net/sfu/ExoPlatform _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
