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I assume by incrementally is meant to have a base backup and store the difference in between. Personally I prefer full backups - they feel more complete.
by tomschwiha 8y ago
I assume by incrementally is meant to have a base backup and store the difference in between.
Personally I prefer full backups - they feel more complete.
- mnw21cam 8y agoI have a server with 300TB of data. Incremental is the only way that my backups are going to be able to run every night. But also, there are different styles of incremental. Some are dodgier than others.
- tomschwiha 8y agoI agree for this volume of data incremental is the best choice. My projects so far ranged from 1-100GB so a full daily backup is quite quick done and its more easy to recover compared to applying incremental backups individually. Well, always choose the right tool for the task.
- Izkata 8y ago> compared to applying incremental backups individually. At least one style of incremental backups can be restored in a single copy - I use rsync to create hardlinks to the previous day if the file is unchanged (based on modified time). This results in around 400M of additional disk usage per day due to changes, for around 90G of data in my home directory.