also sprach Les Mikesell <[email protected]> [2015-12-03 13:29 +1300]:
> I think you are missing the point of the way backuppc stores data -

No no, I know. But e.g. on a mail server, mails get deleted and new
mails arrive, and the backup is ever-increasing. Or log files…

> Also, if it mattered you would not need to store the same amount
> of history at the offsite location.

This is true…

I guess what would be awesome is to instantiate a BackupPC mirror
that can just keep a limited history window of the main server.
That's /conceptually/ what I am after.

> One other thing to keep in mind if you only keep one offsite tar
> image and overwrite it daily - depending on how you perform the
> copy there may be a point where neither the old or new remote copy
> is complete. Guess when your main server will fail...

Hehe, I would not overwrite it until the new file is in place.

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