On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Conor Daly wrote:
> but can I do the following?
>
> 1st of Month: Full backup
> Sunday:Differential Backup from Monthly
> Daily: Differential Backup from Sunday
>
Good question. I suspect it depends on the backup utility and/or oper
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 08:11:32AM -0800 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
Eric Richard Turner thought:
> On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Magni Onsoien wrote:
>
> > Eh, what exactly is the difference between incremental and differential
> > backups?
>
> With differential, every file that has been changed s
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Magni Onsoien wrote:
> Eh, what exactly is the difference between incremental and differential
> backups?
With differential, every file that has been changed since the last
full-system backup is saved. When you restore, all you have to do is
restore from the full-system back
Brian Sweeney:
>
> I don't know much about Arkeia, but a quick note: unless you're really
> hard-up for tapes, or just have disgusting amounts of data to backup, I
> would go with differentials instead of incrementals. Who wants to have to
> juggle 7 tapes if the server goes kaplowee on saturday
