backup strategy for large instance

me_tx4neb

Hi
As mention here if we have many spaces we should take backup from:
1-dump of database
2-local home and shared home

now questions are:
1-these directories has many files that definately take long time to create backup every night, i need to create backup from these files increamentaly and compressed, any idea? (currently i'm using rsync to copy local & share directory)

2-about database dump, do you have any idea that I create it increamentally and copressed every night?(currently i'm using this "pg_dump confluence > /backups/dbdump-$DATE")

Any idea?
Thanks

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

You can take both backups however you prefer to.  Incremental or full are both fine, as long as you can restore them to a point in time.

Imagine your server died this morning and you asked a consultant like me to build a new Confluence service for you, with all your existing data.  I'm going to need a copy of your database and attachments to be restored from your last backup.  It doesn't matter to me whether the backup was complete or incremental, I just need a copy of the latest state of both.