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Mar 30 2009

POL-ONLINE  > However, it doesn't seem to support incremental and differential backups.

Actually, this is not correct: Persistence does differential backups - it only backups what has changed.

What Persistence does not do is keep a history like Time Machine. It maintains a single snapshot up-to-date.  
(Version 1.0b4)

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Apr 14 2009

GXL  So it remembers the state of the full backup and it backs up everything that has changed since the full backup?

That's a good news - thanks.

BTW I haven't tried it yet - I based my comments on feature descriptions, so you might consider adding this into you product description :-).

The incremental backup would be more than usefull too so the files that already got backed up since the full backup and have not changed would not get backed up again-and-again in the differential backups.

Given that the hard work has been done on differential backups I believe it should not be too hard to add the incremental support together with keeping track of files backed up in each backup so the application would be able to prompt the user for the backup media to insert progressively to restore the files/folders to a desired state.  
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Mathusalem
Aug 21 2008

POL-ONLINE  Regarding excluded files / directories: you must choose the right table: exclude either by name or full-path. There is _no_ pattern matching however. AFAIK, exclusion works fine.

Amazon S3 seems to work for the majority of users (if not all) as there are no issue report so far.

However, there is a pending issue on Mathusalem stuck in "idle" mode that a few users experienced:

http://code.google.com/p/mathusalem/issues/detail?id=55

If you have any info on this, please add a comment to the issue, so that it can be investigated.  
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Mathusalem
Aug 21 2008

POL-ONLINE  If you want to back up to an FTP server, make sure to select FTP in the destination type, not SFTP. SFTP is for file transfers over SSH, so it won't work at all with FTP servers!  
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Mathusalem
Aug 21 2008

POL-ONLINE  You must have selected "SFTP" instead of "FTP": SFTP is SSH based, so it won't work at all with your Comcast FTP server!  
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