Re: [BackupPC-users] Full vs. Incremental

2008-10-04 Thread Adam Goryachev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Raphael Alla wrote: > Based on this thread, is there any benefit in doing incremental backups > when using rsync? > > It seems to me that full backup are vastly superior to incremental ones > because: > * They do use existing data available on the ser

Re: [BackupPC-users] Full vs. Incremental (was: Backup through slow line?)

2008-09-28 Thread Nils Breunese (Lemonbit)
Raphael Alla wrote: > Based on this thread, is there any benefit in doing incremental > backups when using rsync? > > It seems to me that full backup are vastly superior to incremental > ones because: > * They do use existing data available on the server and do not use > more bandwidth than

Re: [BackupPC-users] Full vs. Incremental (was: Backup through slow line?)

2008-09-28 Thread Raphael Alla
AIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Stephen Vaughan wrote on 2008-09-06 19:11:08 +1000 [Re: [BackupPC-users] > Full vs. Incremental (was: Backup through slow line?)]: > > What about with multiple full backups, say your full backup is 50gig and > you > > do a full backup

Re: [BackupPC-users] Full vs. Incremental

2008-09-06 Thread Les Mikesell
Stephen Vaughan wrote: > What about with multiple full backups, say your full backup is 50gig and you > do a full backup once a week, will mean each full backup will use 50gigs of > space? Or does the pool do some other linking between the data contained in > each full backup? All files with exact

Re: [BackupPC-users] Full vs. Incremental (was: Backup through slow line?)

2008-09-06 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, Stephen Vaughan wrote on 2008-09-06 19:11:08 +1000 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Full vs. Incremental (was: Backup through slow line?)]: > What about with multiple full backups, say your full backup is 50gig and you > do a full backup once a week, will mean each full backup will use 50g

Re: [BackupPC-users] Full vs. Incremental (was: Backup through slow line?)

2008-09-06 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi, dan wrote on 2008-09-05 21:26:25 -0600 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Full vs. Incremental (was: Backup through slow line?)]: > the real difference between an rsync full and incremental in backuppc are > the 3 following > > 1) a full has rsync ignore matching mtimes and checksum all fil

Re: [BackupPC-users] Full vs. Incremental (was: Backup through slow line?)

2008-09-06 Thread Stephen Vaughan
What about with multiple full backups, say your full backup is 50gig and you do a full backup once a week, will mean each full backup will use 50gigs of space? Or does the pool do some other linking between the data contained in each full backup? On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Christian Völker <[

Re: [BackupPC-users] Full vs. Incremental (was: Backup through slow line?)

2008-09-05 Thread dan
the real difference between an rsync full and incremental in backuppc are the 3 following 1) a full has rsync ignore matching mtimes and checksum all files while and incremental trusts matching mtimes 2)backuppc has a different keep/delete schedule for fulls vs incrementals. 3)an incremental backu

Re: [BackupPC-users] Full vs. Incremental

2008-09-04 Thread Rob Owens
Christian, Here is a good post on Full vs. Incremental from a year ago. In particular, check out the two threads that Holger links to. http://www.mail-archive.com/backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg06101.html -Rob Christian Völker wrote: > Yohoo! > > |> I keep repeating this, so you migh

[BackupPC-users] Full vs. Incremental (was: Backup through slow line?)

2008-09-04 Thread Christian Völker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yohoo! |> I keep repeating this, so you might all be bored, but still: No, definetly not bored. For this it looks like it's too complicated :-\ |> When you factor pooling into the equasion, this means that the difference |> between rsync full and inc

Re: [BackupPC-users] Full VS Incremental

2006-01-19 Thread Mark Cockrell
Thanks, that's what I was hoping to find out. C-ya, Mark Duddley DoRight's Horses name was "Horse." Paul Fox wrote: > I need to call on my trusty BackupPC server to do a near bare-metal > recovery of a server. I've got the OS loaded well enough to interface > with BackupPC. What I n

Re: [BackupPC-users] Full VS Incremental

2006-01-19 Thread Paul Fox
> I need to call on my trusty BackupPC server to do a near bare-metal > recovery of a server. I've got the OS loaded well enough to interface > with BackupPC. What I need to know now is this: If I pick the most > recent incremental install, will the data be filled to include all the > f

[BackupPC-users] Full VS Incremental

2006-01-19 Thread Mark Cockrell
I need to call on my trusty BackupPC server to do a near bare-metal recovery of a server. I've got the OS loaded well enough to interface with BackupPC. What I need to know now is this: If I pick the most recent incremental install, will the data be filled to include all the files from the p