Re: [Duplicity-talk] Suggested increment chain

[Richard Scott]

oops, ignore this one... just seen Ken's other reply.

Rich


> Hi Marcus,
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>
> I think what your describing is also known as a differential backup.
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> It would be nice if Duplicity had this feature.... and also perhaps a feature 
> to keep the last x
> differentials since the last full backup too?
>
> For exmaple, do a full backup on the 1st of the month and then take daily 
> differential backups.
> Come the 31'st of the month you could select to keep the last 5 differential 
> backups so deleting
> all differential backups from the 2nd to the 25th. Obviously the last full 
> backup on the 1st would
>  be kept you can continue the next month with just doing daily differentials.
>
> This way you could do a full backup less often and the backup chain would 
> also be shorter as it
> would only involve two files i.e. the full backup and the chosen differential 
> to restore with.
>
> Is that the idea you are thinking about too?
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>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Rich
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>> On 13/02/2009 14:37, Kenneth Loafman wrote:
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>>> As to frequency, I would suggest a full every week and incrementals
>>> every day.  This means that if a backup should be bad, you won't be out 
>>> more than a week or so
>>>  from the last recoverable backup.
>>>
>>> There is no "right" answer, so its all tunable to the usage.
>>>
>>>
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>> Is there anyway to create a diff with duplicity? Or get an incremental
>> that ignores all current incrementals and performs an incremental purely 
>> against the last full
>> backup (so basically is a diff)?
>>
>> Thanks
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>> Marcus
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