does auto remove smart mode merge incremental backups?
I am trying to understand what is going on behind-the-scenes when using "smart remove".
Please correct anything wrong of the following:
Back In Time uses incremental backups (with rsync) so only changes to the previous backup are stored.
To recover a full backup you need both the initial backup plus all changes applied since then.
But now if smart remove gets rid of certain snapshots will that not make it impossible to recover a full backup if certain changes are only covered with a snapshot that has been removed?
Example:
Smart remove keeps snapshots of today and yesterday as well as one from last week, etc.
What if I changed a file the day before yesterday, is it backuped anywhere?
I seem to just not understand the mechanism behind it... do snapshots get merged instead of removed?
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