[BackupPC-users] rsyncd and incrementals

[Trey N. <tr...@gc...>]

I'm backing up hosts over a WAN (read: slow connection), so I use rsync.
Backuppc seemed to be doing OK, but then the full backup comes due.  The
full backup can take days to complete and saturate the pipe at the same time
(yes, I know about bwlimit in rsync and other ways to limit bandwidth).  The
old way I was doing our backup just always did an incremental backup using
the rsync algorithm, but backuppc seems to force a full backup every so
often.  I found this thread in the archives, but it is now over a year old:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=8646797

If I am reading this thread right, Backuppc won't really work well over
WANs.   Am I reading it correctly?  Has a workaround been developed over the
last year?

Trey Nolen