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All FTP backup jobs become Full = "Every Time" with upgrade
I just upgraded from 4.2.15 to 4.2.17. Now, all my FTP backup jobs have been changed to "Schedule Full Backup: Every Time." "Every Time" is the only option in the drop-down, so I can't fix them! Thi...
If you want to do incremental backup with FTP than you need the add-on. Note the warning:
So if you are backing up (for instance) updates to an existing document, this method will likely end up with a corrupt file on the backup site.
Rsync would be better if it is available on the remote side.
Warning: the reason this was taken out is because this behavior is actually pseudo-incremental and can have nasty side effects. Incremental backup was a side effect of having upload resumes enabled. With upload resumes enabled, the backup manager will try to resume uploading a file if a file of the same name on the destination side was smaller than that of the file on the source side, regardless of whether the rest of the file matches or not.
So if you are backing up (for instance) updates to an existing document, this method will likely end up with a corrupt file on the backup site.
Rsync would be better if it is available on the remote side.
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