Re: [BackupPC-users] Thinking aloud about backup rotation

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

PD Support wrote:
> If I have a source/dest folder with a week's worth of backups in it labelled
> Mon_backup.bak, Tue_backup.bak etc., the next backup to be made on (say)
> Weds will technically be the diff between the Tues copy on the BackupPC
> server and the Weds copy on the remote server.
> 
> It would be great if BackupPC had some way of 'knowing' that a folder
> contained files of a cyclic nature like this and could do the relevant
> sync/diff backup by looking at "yesterday's" file??

Is there some reason (like not having enough time to complete) that you can't 
let backuppc back up the original files instead of your backup folder?  Or, keep 
a 'current' backup folder that backuppc can use to build its own history?

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   Les Mikesell
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