Jack wrote:
> I ues a backup system before that had a "incremental forever" backup policy.
> The first "incremental" was really a full, and after that, like BackupPC
> with rsync, it scanned for changes, and only backedup what it needed to.
> Unless you forced it, you never did (or needed to) do a
I asked that very question a couple of weeks ago!
In my undrstanding, the answer was thus:
An incremental backup relies on modification datestamp to know what to back
up, and the method is not infallible. Depending on the transfer method, it
can miss the odd update. Also, it gets more and more
I ues a backup system before that had a "incremental forever" backup policy.
The first "incremental" was really a full, and after that, like BackupPC
with rsync, it scanned for changes, and only backedup what it needed to.
Unless you forced it, you never did (or needed to) do a full backup again.
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