Re: [BackupPC-users] wishlist: full backups whenever incrementals get too large

2007-09-09 Thread Craig Barratt
Rob Owens writes: > Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > > It would also be nice at times to be able to one-time-schedule the next > > backup of a particular host to be a full backup (for instance, if you knew > > that you'd just added some data). The way to do this right now is: > > - Start the backu

Re: [BackupPC-users] wishlist: full backups whenever incrementals get too large

2007-09-09 Thread Craig Barratt
Jacob writes: > If this is really the way backuppc does incremental backups, I think > backuppc should be a bit more incremental with its incremental > backups. Instead of comparing against the last full, it should > compare against the last full and incremental backups. This would > solve this pr

Re: [BackupPC-users] wishlist: full backups whenever incrementals get too large

2007-08-27 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 08/26 04:38 , Holger Parplies wrote: > Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote on 21.08.2007 at 09:04:40 [[BackupPC-users] > wishlist: full backups whenever incrementals get too large]: > > [...] > > Would it be reasonable to have backuppc check the time used by the last > > incr

Re: [BackupPC-users] wishlist: full backups whenever incrementals get too large

2007-08-27 Thread Rob Owens
Les Mikesell wrote: > Rob Owens wrote: >> Holger Parplies wrote: >>> - The higher the level of the incremental backup, the greater the >>> speedup, >>> but the less certain you are of not having missed some changes. >> In the case of rsync, is a greater speedup achieved due to 1) less >> calcul

Re: [BackupPC-users] wishlist: full backups whenever incrementals get too large

2007-08-27 Thread Les Mikesell
Rob Owens wrote: > Holger Parplies wrote: >> - The higher the level of the incremental backup, the greater the speedup, >> but the less certain you are of not having missed some changes. > In the case of rsync, is a greater speedup achieved due to 1) less > calculations to make about what to tran

Re: [BackupPC-users] wishlist: full backups whenever incrementals get too large

2007-08-27 Thread Rob Owens
Holger Parplies wrote: > - The higher the level of the incremental backup, the greater the speedup, > but the less certain you are of not having missed some changes. In the case of rsync, is a greater speedup achieved due to 1) less calculations to make about what to transfer, or 2) less actual t

Re: [BackupPC-users] wishlist: full backups whenever incrementals get too large

2007-08-26 Thread Holger Parplies
Hi all, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote on 21.08.2007 at 09:04:40 [[BackupPC-users] wishlist: full backups whenever incrementals get too large]: > [...] > Would it be reasonable to have backuppc check the time used by the last > incremental against the time used by the last full, and if i

Re: [BackupPC-users] wishlist: full backups whenever incrementals get too large

2007-08-24 Thread Jacob
On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:14:39 +0200 Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 21 August 2007, Jacob wrote: > > If this is really the way backuppc does incremental backups, I think > > backuppc should be a bit more incremental with its incremental backups. > > Instead of comparing against th

Re: [BackupPC-users] wishlist: full backups whenever incrementals get too large

2007-08-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 21 August 2007, you wrote: > Frans Pop wrote: > >> If this is really the way backuppc does incremental backups, I think > >> backuppc should be a bit more incremental with its incremental > >> backups. Instead of comparing against the last full, it should compare > >> against the last fu

Re: [BackupPC-users] wishlist: full backups whenever incrementals get too large

2007-08-21 Thread Rich Rauenzahn
> If this is really the way backuppc does incremental backups, I think backuppc > should be a bit more incremental with its incremental backups. Instead of > comparing against the last full, it should compare against the last full and > incremental backups. This would solve this problem and mak

Re: [BackupPC-users] wishlist: full backups whenever incrementals get too large

2007-08-21 Thread Les Mikesell
Frans Pop wrote: >> If this is really the way backuppc does incremental backups, I think >> backuppc should be a bit more incremental with its incremental backups. >> Instead of comparing against the last full, it should compare against the >> last full and incremental backups. This would solve th

Re: [BackupPC-users] wishlist: full backups whenever incrementals get too large

2007-08-21 Thread Rob Owens
Jacob wrote: > On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 10:38:10 -0400 > Rob Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: >> >>> It would also be nice at times to be able to one-time-schedule the next >>> backup of a particular host to be a full backup (for instance, if you knew >>> th

Re: [BackupPC-users] wishlist: full backups whenever incrementals get too large

2007-08-21 Thread Jacob
On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 10:38:10 -0400 Rob Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > > It would also be nice at times to be able to one-time-schedule the next > > backup of a particular host to be a full backup (for instance, if you knew > > that you'd just added some d

Re: [BackupPC-users] wishlist: full backups whenever incrementals get too large

2007-08-21 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 21 August 2007, Jacob wrote: > If this is really the way backuppc does incremental backups, I think > backuppc should be a bit more incremental with its incremental backups. > Instead of comparing against the last full, it should compare against the > last full and incremental backups. T

Re: [BackupPC-users] wishlist: full backups whenever incrementals get too large

2007-08-21 Thread Jacob
On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:04:40 -0500 Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just noticed today that one of the hosts I'm backing up, is suddenly > taking much longer to back up. Looks like someone put a large quantity of > new data on it. > > Problem is that whereas the full backups

Re: [BackupPC-users] wishlist: full backups whenever incrementals get too large

2007-08-21 Thread Rob Owens
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > It would also be nice at times to be able to one-time-schedule the next > backup of a particular host to be a full backup (for instance, if you knew > that you'd just added some data). The way to do this right now is: > - Start the backup right now while you're th

[BackupPC-users] wishlist: full backups whenever incrementals get too large

2007-08-21 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
I just noticed today that one of the hosts I'm backing up, is suddenly taking much longer to back up. Looks like someone put a large quantity of new data on it. Problem is that whereas the full backups used to take (as a proportional scale) 1x, and incrementals perhaps 0.2x, the latest incremental