I am a backupPC newb looking for troubleshooting clues.
I have a backupPC server backing up a couple of remote filesystems using rsync
over ssh ($sshPath -q -x -i /etc/backuppc/rsync_backup_rsa -l backuppc $host
$rsyncPath $argList+). The filesystems total about 1.5 GB. Rsync_args include
--bw
Unless you have a specific reason not to, absolutely! I would use
multi-level incrementals. I've always liked a tower of hanoi backup scheme
(http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22tower+of+hanoi%22+backup+rotation),
but there are others that work well too.
That said, it's still in your best i
It is BackupPC 3.0 but recently upgraded from 2.1.2.
I have only $Conf{IncrLevels} = [1];
Are you suggesting I implement multi-levels?
Tony
On Jun 21, 2007, at 10:34 AM, Stephen Joyce wrote:
> If you're using 2.1.x, then yes. All incrementals are based off of
> the full and will check/transfe
I'm experiencing something and I just want to check if I'm
understanding what is happening.
I backup Linux-Linux with XferMethod = rsync. Occasionally a full
backup of one of my large systems fails for one reason or another. So
I exclude some big directories and run it again, and then have
