[Duplicity-talk] Suggested increment chain

[Kennon Ballou]

Based on how duplicity does incrementals, if you lose one of the 
incrementals or if it is corrupted, as I understand it you will lose 
everything after that in the chain. Because of that, it seems to be a 
good idea to do a new full backup occasionally.

How long is a recommend length of time to go between fulls? I'm running 
right now a daily incremental and a full every 14 days. Does that seem 
to be too short/long? What kind of frequency are you going between fulls?

On a related note, what volume size do you use? I've been going with 
100mb volumes, as this seemed to be for me a tradeoff between number of 
files and length of time it takes to copy back for a restore. The 
default of 10mb means that for a typical backup I'm going to have 
several thousand volumes; is it actually a better idea to stick with 
small volumes? Is 100mb too big?

Anyway, I'm sure there isn't one "right" answer for any of this, but was 
just curious to hear what you guys use in practice.

| Kennon Ballou
| Angry Turnip, Inc.

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