Re: Re: Looking for USB pen-drive -> CD based backup system

Miek Gieben <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.hdup.general
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[On 15 Sep, @01:08, Boris wrote in "Re: [hdup-user] Re: Looking fo ..."]
> Steinar Bang wrote:
> 
> >Do I need to do a full backup once a month, or can I use the one
> >monthly backup, all the way, until the pen drive is full?
> > 
> >
> You can do them as often or as rarely as you want to.  Hdup's "monthly" 
> just means a full dump of the directory being backed up.

yes, to add to this:

monthly  -> full dump, dump level 0
weekly   -> inc dump relative to monthly, dump level 1
daily    -> inc dump relative to weekly,  dump level 2

grtz Miek
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