Backup forum

speckle111 wrote:

1)  I've been reading the docs/faq and it says that IDrive has been tested to back up files up to 10 GB large.  I have a few files that are more than that (nothing over 15 GB).  Will they get backed up?  I was a bit surprised that the file size limit seems so small and make me wonder how well this will scale to larger applications.

With Windows, I have a 40GB Virtual Disk image that changes every time I load the guest. The initial backup took a long time, and if it was interrupted it would restart from scratch next time, but now that its had its full backup the incrementals work in good time.

2)  What changes to a file will cause it to be backed up?  I've been looking for a technical description and haven't found it.  I read that it doesn't preserve permissions and owner/group information, so I'm assuming that changing the permissions or ownership of a file won't trigger a backup.  My biggest question is if changing inodes will trigger a backup.  In the very near future, I want to move some of my local files to a NAS, which I plan to mount on my host in exactly the same location they are now (except they'll be NAS disk rather than local disk).  This is going to change the inodes of all of the files, but NOT their size/content.  Will this trigger a new backup?  Sorry for asking this... I could have tested it if I could run a backup, but I figure someone else may have the same question at some point.  What if I change a file's timestamp.  I'm assuming that that will trigger a backup (though if the content is unchanged, nothing should actually have to be sent to the backup).

I don't know the answer to this, I would suggest you experiment with some small files!