On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 08:41:57AM -0400, Daniel Miller wrote: > > On Oct 21, 2009, at 10:03 PM, plug bert wrote: > > > Hmm...so in that case, if i want to incrementally back up a > >100gb file daily for one week, and for simplicity's sake, assume > >the file grows 1gb per day, my backup media will need to be at > >least 100gb + 6gb? > > Yes... plus a bit of space for rdiff-backup housekeeping data.
sorry, doesn't rdiff-backup work at the file level, not the block level. so a 100G file that has 1 byte changed, mean that 200G of backup space is used ? so for 6 days of changes to the 100G file that would take up 600G of space > [snip]
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