Re: [BackupPC-users] "Golden Copy" backups

[Les M. <les...@gm...>]

Bradley Alexander wrote:
> I am trying to get my head around the 3.0.0 backup levels, and I have a question. 
> 
> I would like to have a "golden" full backup for some period of weeks or months. Basically, I would like to take a full backup, say, monthly or quarterly, then set up fulls weekly and incrementals daily. 
> 
> Would the best approach to this be to set the full (level 0) to once a month or once a quarter, then set up level 1s weekly and say level 2s daily? Or is there a way to keep a golden backup for a period of time, and still do fulls weekly, but preserving that original golden backup? 

Backuppc's pooling scheme won't take additional space for unchanged 
files in additional full runs so usually you can just pick a reasonable 
full interval (like a week) and control how long the oldest will be 
retained with Conf{FullKeepCnt}.  If you want to archive some runs 
forever, look at using the archive host feature to copy to tapes or dvds.

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   Les Mikesell
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