incremental backups rentention

sahostking

• May 07, 2017 09:22

So to understand this correctly. IF we select daily backup under incremental type and set retention to say 3 and say the /home directory with all cpanel accounts is say 600GB then the backup server or path will have 3 dated backup folders each of 600GB? and not 1 600GB and the rest only the changes? Hope this is not the case because then it is doing full backups?

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  cPanelMichael

  • May 08, 2017 16:55

  Hello @sahostking, Incremental backups make use of hard links for files that have not changed to avoid duplicating data that already exists. Here's a thread where this is discussed in more detail: How do the backups work exactly? Thank you.

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