[Duplicity-talk] Avoiding full backups

[Benjamin Eastep]

I'm having some trouble with Duplicity.

1)I have about 13 gigs of data to backup
2)I have a relatively slow uplink.  Running a full backup takes about 4 
days.  (But most of it's pretty static, so incremental backups work fine)
3)After many (a couple of hundred? ) incrementals, duplicity breaks.  
Googling around seems to suggest doing a full backup once a month or so, 
to avoid this type of problem.

So here's my issue.  I need to do a full backup occasionally to avoid 
breakage, but doing a full backup is impractical time-wise...

Is there some other way I make this work?

Note: I'm running duplicity 0.4.2 because that's in debian stable.  If 
necessary,  I can snag 0.5 from a backport.

Thanks,
Ben Eastep