From: Tomasz C. <ma...@wp...> - 2006-03-25 08:45:40
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Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 17:21, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > >>> there are other backup schemes that do the "always make a full" thing, >>> do a web search for "mike rubel rsync backup" to see one guy's web >>> page that uses a similar scheme. It lacks many of the nice surrounding >>> tools that backuppc gives you. >> I'd rather want BackupPC to have it :) > > You should be able to tell backuppc to make fulls as often as > you want. The only downside with rsync is the extra time > it takes to do the full block checksum compare on existing > files. Is it really the only downside of full backups? Doesn't a full backup mean that *everything* will be transferred again? In case of backup of several 50 GB servers over slow internet, that would be a never-ending daily disaster :) Does the full rsync backup in BackupPC transfer only changes (compared to the last full backup), or maybe it transfers everything? It's not clear from the documentation (which states: "A full backup is a complete backup of a share."). -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org |