From: Craig B. <cba...@us...> - 2004-10-09 18:26:05
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Han Lin writes: > I have some questions regarding the BackupPC : > > 1. In the summary page, the Durations/Mins, Total #Files, Total Size/MB > between Full and Incremental backup is roughly the same? Why? > Incremental backup should be took shorter time and the files being > back-ed up also should be lesser than Full backup. Yes, generally they should be. For some reason it sounds like the incrementals are transferring all the files too, which isn't right. What XferMethod are you using? > 2. In the summary page, I saw this message "Because [hostname] has been > on the network at least 7 consecutive times, it will not be backed up > from 7:00 to 19:30 on Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri." What does that mean? This refers to blackout. By default machines that are always on the network are not backed up during regular hours. See the Blackout config settings: you can turn this off or change the timing and behavior. > 3. Which parameter to change to retain the backup for 1 month (4 Full & > 24 Incremental backup). I doubt you really want to save 24 incremental backups, but here goes: $Conf{FullKeepCnt} = 4; $Conf{IncrKeepCnt} = 24; See the documentation for $Conf{FullKeepCnt}; it allows you to specify exponential expiry too. Craig |