Hello, I can not answer all your questions. Maybe my colleagues do have some ideas. Which filesystem do you use on the backup drive (the destination)? Sorry, I did not understand your description about how you lost a backup. Am 30.11.2023 15:10 schrieb LateJunction:
Yesterday I was able to set up and run BIT to give me backups under profiles 1 and 2
Did you used the BIT GUI to setup this profiles or did you created your config file with a text editor based on "backintime-config" man page?
I am further confused by the operation of BIT: I cannot tell (aside from looking at the log for a selected snapshot) which snapshot is the ‘Full’ backup and which are the incremental backups – they are all labelled as ‘snapshots’.
I am aware that the docu of BIT is not clear about it. I will work on that. BIT is using "rsync" in the back and using its "hardlink feature". Technically each snapshot is a "full backup". BIT do not produce incremental backups. Using the hardlinks feature of rsync just makes it feel a bit like incremental. In short: Full copies are done for files that changed between two snapshots. Files that did not change are just linked using hardlinks and not copied. That is why the snapshots after the first one should be quite fast. There is a more detailed description in our FAQ: https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/blob/dev/FAQ.md#how-does-snapshots-wi... Kind Christian