Re: [Duplicity-talk] Announcing Déjà Dup

[Gabriel Ambuehl]

Michael Terry wrote:
> For example, I saw on the list a while back, that it's not encouraged
> to forever do incremental backups, that you should occasionally make a
> fresh full backup.  Why?
>
>   
One of the reasons: If one file in the incremental chain develops even 
just one bit flip, the chances rather high are your whole backup is 
useless. Another one is possibly just caution towards duplicity itself. 
It's been around for a while now but in fairness, it was not tested as 
widely as one would like for a dependable backup tool (in my case, I use 
it as second line of defence, next to backing up to encrypted USB storage).