Re: [Duplicity-talk] Suggested increment chain

[Marcus Williams]

On 13/02/2009 15:57, Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> This would be the equivalent of coalescing the incremental sets
> together, which is something I've thought of tackling, but have not
> since I think it would lead to bad backup behavior in that full backups
> would not be done on a regular basis and too much reliance would be put
> on ancient backups and long chains of incremental/differential backups.
>   That's a recipe for disaster.

Mmmm - fair point. My problem at the moment is we back up far too much 
data to keep a weekly (or even bi-weekly) full. Maybe I should revisit 
our backup list :)

I've been wondering about how safe data is in a duplicity archive - what 
happens if one of the volumes is corrupted? Do you lose all data from 
that volume onwards? Do all increments from that increment onwards 
become invalid?

Thanks

Marcus