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Incremental backup is really not ...
Incremental Backup is really not that with SilverKeeper. It makes full copies - which means a 2 GB backup will bloat to 6GB if 3 copies are backed up. Incremental should mean "only those that have changed since last backup". SK's current method of incremental just wastes disk space.
Incremental backup is really not ...
Here is what SilverKeeper tries to accomplish with subsequent backups whether using the folder option of not:
Incremental backup is really not ...
Silverkeeper,
Incremental backup is right with SilverKeeper!
After a few e-mail exchanges with SilverKeeper author, I find that Incremental Backup IS done right. I have immediately dumped Synk for SK!!
Incremental backup is really not ...
Can SilverKeeper backup to non Mac (i.e. FAT,NTFS) partitions over SAMBA?
Incremental backup is really not ...
It can back up to any volume that mounts to the desktop or can be found in the Network Finder window.
Incremental backup is really not ...
This may have been fixed by the OS recently but when I used to use SilverKeeper backing up to an NTFS volume over the network it would always hang when it found a file with [square brackets] in the name or s/ashes and I think que?tion marks too.
Incremental backup is really not ...
There are many limitations when backing up to shared volumes. Mainly due to problems dealing with:
Incremental backup is really not ...
A frequent solution to storing HFS+ metadata on non-HFS volumes is to create a sparse .dmg on that volume, then mount it from the Finder.
Incremental backup is really not ...
Synk development has not stopped.
Terminology: Full, Incremental, Differential
From the sound of it, they use the term "incremental" correctly. What you want is a "differential" backup. It may be the case that SK doesn't do differential. What they're doing and what they call it, however, follow industry-standard conventions. |
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