On 2/20/26 08:57, Shadrock Uhuru wrote:
>
> hi everyone
> i'm using rsync incremental backup and
> i'm trying to understand which backups are full and which are
> incremental,
> my backup policy is 7 daily 4 weekly 12 monthly 1 yearly backup
> for the daily backups
> monday is a full backup
> and tuesday to sunday are incremental.
> is that the same for my weekly and monthly backups
> where the first week is a full backup
> and the following weeks are incremental backup of the previous week ?
>
> shadrock
>
As others have said, your question is way to ambiguous.
I suspect I know what you are thinking, if I'm right, you are thinking
wrong. But I have nothing to go on from your post.
Done properly, rsync based backups can be a glorious combination of the
best of both worlds -- moving data as if it was always incremental, but
storing it as if it was always a full backup.
this is how I do it, scaling from one little netbook backing up my home
directory to an SD card to 500 machines and ~25TB of disk, the docs here
might help you understand how it all works, even if you aren't going to
use my script:
https://holland-consulting.net/scripts/ibs/
I've installed this at a number of my employers over the years, and it
has been a HUGE hit with the administrators because it is so bloomin'
USEFUL, which is not something people usually say when talking about
backups.
Nick.
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