Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental forever.

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

Craig Barratt wrote:
> 
>> Would it be possible to do incremental forever with BackupPc like you
>> can do with TSM, or if it is not possible, do you plan to implement it
>> in the future ?
>>
>> I understand it can/will be cpu intensive, but such a feature would be
>> nice with some servers.
>>
>> Thanks for a great product.
> 
> A fundamental change to the manner in which backups are stored is
> planned for 4.x, and that will allow rsync "incremental forever" if
> you choose (assuming you find the risk acceptable that the contents
> of the files are not actually ever being checked).

Could you add a way to constrain the --ignore-timestamp option to 
certain time windows (like weekends only), or a certain multiple of 
runs, or to leave it off on the scheduled runs but permit it to be 
explicitly forced when manually starting a full?

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    les...@gm...