On Thu, 20 Jul 2017 08:18:44 -0600 Ray Frush <fr...@rams.colostate.edu> wrote:
> I believe you could do something like you propose with the current > BackupPC by setting the "IncrPeriod' to 0.04 (1/24 of a day). You'd > have to make some interesting settings for "FillCycle" and > "FullKeepCnt" to make it keep a usable schedule, but you could then > have 'hourly' incrementals. "interesting settings" is the corner stone of this. > As Les Mikesell just pointed out, the downside would be that for large > instances, you'd be doing a lot of fairly expensive (compute time) > operations every hour to scan the file system for changes. > > I believe that FS snapshots are faster, and more efficient than > BackupPC could ever be for this. OK, fair explanation this time; too bad. I'll dive into the snapshot code to see if a timestamp check can be easily implemented - thanks. JY ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ 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/
