Re: [Duplicity-talk] [newbie] backup nesting filetrees?

[edgar . soldin]

> However `duplicity` is tar-ing and compressing, not just mirroring, so
> I'm suspecting the above strategy just won't work. I.e. I can't have
> one `duplicity` backup nested within another. Is that correct?

probably you could, but it would be senseless..  you would have to run
duplicity twice to get your 'inner' data back and gain no efficiency.

> If so, I'm suspecting the most, umm, "duplicitous" way to capture
> regular changes in a subspace is just to backup the whole space, e.g.
> 
> * daily:  incremental backup of /home/me
> * weekly: full backup of /home/me
> 
> Is that correct?

you would this way have a backup of the size of your whole /home/me
every week. Depending for how long you want to archive this it could get
quite big.

ede