> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On > Behalf Of John R Pierce > Sent: den 8 maj 2015 17:12 > To: centos at centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution > > On 5/7/2015 11:44 PM, Sorin Srbu wrote: > > May I ask what your settings are to achieve that retention rate? > > there's a lot of settings... but these are probably applicable... > > Main Config: > Schedule: > FullPeriod: 27.9 > FullKeepCnt: 24 > FullKeepCntMin: 8 > FullAgeMax: 360 > IncrPeriod: 0.97 > IncrKeepCnt: 30 > IncrKeepMin: 1 > IncrAgeMax: 30 > IncrLevels: 1 > > on a few hosts where dailies are not appropriate due to how long they > take, I override to do weekly incrementals instead > > Schedule: > FullPeriod: 89.6 > FullKeepCnt: 2 > FullKeepCntMin: 2 > IncrPeriod: 6.97 > IncrKeepCnt: 15 > IncrAgeMax: 100 > > many of those are probably defaults, but I didn't keep track which ones > I modified > > another thing, many of my servers are SQL database servers (mostly > postgresql and oracle). I do NOT backup the sql data file systems > directly with backuppc, instead, I have the SQL do archiving or > scheduled dumps, and I backup those archive and dump destinations... Thanks, very much appreciated! I'll play around with the settings a bit more, but yours is a good starter. Thanks again! -- //Sorin