Incremental backup settings

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Hi everyone,

I’m trying to use kbackup to do incremental backups every day, with a full backup every 7 days. I’ve set those up in a profile, and I execute the profile via a cron job at 2:00am every morning. I’ve also set the profile up to keep 2 full backups maximum. No matter what I do, it always performs a full backup…I see no files with the “_inc” text in them.

Is there something I have to do to reset it all after changing profiles? Is there some interaction between backup interval and number of full backups which affects incremental backups? Or is the calculation info that figures out what files have changed stored somewhere, and I need to clear it?

The profile looks like this…

M /local-backups/10T-2/backups/kbackup/local-12T
P
S 0
R 2
F 7
C 0
Z 0
I /local-12T

Also, just for info, what is the meaning of the fields in the .kbp file?
As in , what do the the M, P, S, R, F, C, Z and I labels mean?

Thanks,

Paul

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Forget the last question about the line labels…I did an experiment.

M is the path to the backup archive (I’m guessing M for Media).
P is the archive prefix if you change it from the default of “backup”
S is the size of a backup slice, 0 being unlimited.
R is the number of full backups to keep.
F is the full backup interval in days
C is a flag to say that the backup media needs to be changed.
Z is a flag for compression
I is the input directory to be archived.