Re: [Duplicity-talk] Daily Incremental Restore

[edgar . soldin]

On 19.02.2012 16:01, Cornelius Keller wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> I Just started using duplicity und liked it very much due to its easy of use. 
> Backing up my server to s3 just took me half an hour, including installation 
> and doc reading. That is nice, thank you to everybody who is involved.
> 
> I also tried to use a duplicity restore to keep my development server up to 
> date with the data from the production system. 
> Restoring the data went just fine, but when I tried to set up a cron job to 
> keep it up to date, I noticed that I have to use the --force option, because 
> the destination folder is of cause already prestent on disc.
> I had the impression that  duplicity with the force option is overwriting the 
> wohle folder, instead of  syncing it. 
> Is this correct?

yes

> And if so, is there a way to do just an incremental restore of what has 
> changed?

no, that's why there is the --force option to make sure you know what you're up 
to.
 
what's the rationale against rsync instead of duplicity for this purpose?

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