Question about incremental backups

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#1 Tue, 11/17/2015 - 02:46
soydemadrid

Question about incremental backups

Hi I've set up Virtualmin to make incremental backups and Webmin to do a full weekly Filesystem backup.

I just wanted to check this is the correct approach for a server with a lot of data stored.

Does Virtualmin recognise the Webmin Filesystem backup as an actual Full Backup, and then does its own incremental backups based on this, or do I have to make a Full Backup with Virtualmin before the Incremental backups work?

If so, then is weekly Filesystem backup not much use?

Tue, 11/17/2015 - 11:23
andreychek

Howdy,

No, unfortunately, that likely would not work... when performing an incremental backup, I believe it only looks at successful full Virtualmin backups.

Some people use the filesystem backup for backing up /etc... then if something happens to your config files, you can get them back quickly.

-Eric

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