Imcremental Backup with BackWPup Free

  • Resolved Computer Shop Online

    (@computer-shop-online)


    10 years, 4 months ago

    Hi,

    I use BackWPup and it works good and as expected. But is it not possible to create Imcremental Backups with this plugin? Now I get every day full backups on my DropBox. It should be much better when only the changed files are backed up. So that you first should create a Full Backup and after that a daily Imcremental Backup.

    I can’t find this option in your plugin, is this even possible?

    With kind regards,

    Gaston Meertens
    Computer Shop Online
    https://www.computershop-online.nl

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  • Hi – here’s what I do, it may help you:

    BackWPup does make full backups each time, but revisions don’t count towards Dropbox’s storage limit https://www.dropbox.com/en/help/216. I remove the datestamp from the Dropbox backup archive name in BackWPup’s settings so that each nightly backup overwrites the previous backup.

    Dropbox stores 30 days of revisions https://www.dropbox.com/en/help/11 while only the most recent revision counts towards my storage limit.

    I actually like the fact that each backup is a full snapshot since I can restore from a point in time via a single file.

    Thread Starter Computer Shop Online

    (@computer-shop-online)

    Hi Pixelatic,

    Thanks for this great idea! This is a good solution! At this moment i have to copy each 3 days my dropbox content to Google Drive, because otherwise my Dropbox gets full every 3 days. And now i just have adjusted the setting like you told me. I am going to test this, but I am sure that this should work.

    I will let you know after testing…..

    With kind regards,

    Gaston
    Computer Shop Online
    https://www.computershop-online.nl

    Thread Starter Computer Shop Online

    (@computer-shop-online)

    Hi Pixelatic,

    I tested your solution, and I can tell you that this is working!

    Now I have on my Dropbox just 1 file, without timestamp, and this file gets updated every day. On this way my Dropbox is not growing with data.

    Thanks a lot for this great solution!

    I set this topic on resolved.

    With kind Regards,

    Gaston
    Computer Shop Online
    https://www.computershop-online.nl

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