Re: [BackupPC-users] wishlist: full backups whenever incrementals get too large

[Frans P. <el...@pl...>]

On Tuesday 21 August 2007, Jacob wrote:
> If this is really the way backuppc does incremental backups, I think
> backuppc should be a bit more incremental with its incremental backups.
> Instead of comparing against the last full, it should compare against the
> last full and incremental backups. This would solve this problem and make
> backuppc more efficient anyway, AFAIK.

That proposal goes completely against the basic principles of incremental 
backups! If you want something like that, you should use multiple levels of 
incremental backups.