From: Innop <inn...@gm...> - 2010-07-01 12:31:04
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Thanks for you response. I think for me, the best solution is 1,2,3,4 for Incremental Levels (if I have no problem with backup). I will test it. And what do you think of my method ? Thanks. 2010/7/1 Saturn2888 <bac...@ba...> > > I would do successive incrementals, but only if the same exact files aren't > changing each time. For instance, successive incrementals do not benefit you > if files X changed today, and it changes tomorrow, and it changes the next > day only if file X is the file that chances the most. > > If file X is a text file, successive incrementals might be useful so long > as the same blocks of text from the day before still exist in the file. This > is going to be pretentious for any file whose changes persist day to day > even if there are changes. > > The one time you, for-sure, want to use successive incrementals is if you > have the processing power, disk space, and amount of files that change > day-to-day to require it. Especially if you're on a limited line like a VPN > over the Internet, it would be beneficial to check for changes from the day > before than say 6 days before as you'd wanna copy less information rather > than more. > > The more successive incremental levels you add, the slower it goes. 6 will > always yield decent speeds. I have mine setup at home for 8, but even that > might be too much for a one-drive setup. I used to have it setup for 60 and > each incremental past level 18 would start to show slowdown. It would start > to take 6-7 hours to backup the same host that, at lower incremental levels, > took only a few tens of minutes. > > I would try the successive incrementals and see where it takes you. Test > between them both for 2 different weeks and that will tell you which to > choose for sure. I like successive incrementals, I just don't like using > them at higher levels because it really really begins to slow things down. > > +---------------------------------------------------------------------- > |This was sent by Sat...@gm... via Backup Central. > |Forward SPAM to ab...@ba.... > +---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint > What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? > Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > Bac...@li... > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > |