From: Jean-Michel B. <be...@pc...> - 2007-07-09 16:31:49
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Hello Carl, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > BackupPC takes 'incrementals' against the last 'full' backup. So the farther > you get from the last 'full', the bigger your delta against it will be. > Obviously this depends heavily on how often your data changes; but it makes > sense to run a full backup occasionally. > in theory, in the version 3.x of BackupPC, we can take incrementals of different levels ( $Conf{IncrLevels} )... but, my little experience shows that we don't gain a lot of time with high level (with rsync) worse some incr takes more times that the full :-( what is the cause ? - design of BackupPC : (hardLink, pool, ... -> a lot of disk seeks...) - design of File::Rsync somebody had a better experience of use of the $Conf{IncrLevels} ? regards jmb |