[BackupPC-users] Explanation of archiving process

[Joanne C. <j....@ox...>]

Hi List,

This might sound like a trivial question, but can someone clarify something for me?

The documentation says that the Archive function uses TarCreate, which merges incremental backups automatically. Does that mean that if you create an archive of a given incremental backup you are actually creating an archive of that increment plus the previous full backup? And to restore from a given incremental all I would need is that archive and not the previous full backup? 

Presumably also if I create nightly archives of the previous incremental backup they are going to get increasingly large?

Many Thanks

Jo

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Joanne Cook
Senior IT Support and Development
Oxford Archaeology (North)
01524 880212
http://thehumanjourney.net



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