Eric Smith wrote: > Cord Walter wrote: >> Am 09.03.2010 13:03, schrieb Ali Jawad: >>> Hm..I got slightly confused here...let's suppose I keep a 7 day backup >>> history and 1 monthly backup. >>> >>> The 7 day backups are full backups and the monthly backup is a full >>> backup ? Or are they differential / incremental ? >> If I've understood dirvish correctly, the monthly backup is the full >> backup and the 7-day-backups are differential backups - but with added >> hardlinks [1] to the files in the full (monthly) backup, so that they >> look like a full backup if you go into the directory of the daily backup. > > They're all full backups. Space (and backup time) is saved by using hard > links. > > You can manually delete any of the backups (except any one, of course), > in any order. The last remaining backup will have all of the files that > were backed up at the time.
That was supposed to be "You can manually delete each of the backups ...", but the sentence still doesn't make much sense. I was trying to convey that you can delete all except one, and do it in any order. No one backup "owns" the common, unchanged files. They belong equally to each backup in which they appear. -- Eric. _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
