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Re: [Duplicity-talk] Restart from Last Full Backup
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Alan Gutierrez |
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Re: [Duplicity-talk] Restart from Last Full Backup |
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Mon, 18 Feb 2013 03:19:46 -0500 |
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A follow up to this. I wanted to simply add an occasional incremental update to
a large full backup that I never intended to rerun. I've been running Duplicity
from `cron` for a while now and I see that it went and decided to do a full
backup all on its own. Is this Duplicity's correct behavior, to run a full
backup every two weeks by default? I know the obvious solution is to specify
`incremental`, but I'm curious as to whether or not there is scheduling built
into Duplicity.
Also, I've restored on lost file from my daily backups so far. Thank you.
--
Alan Gutierrez ~ @bigeasy
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 10:15:55AM +0100, address@hidden wrote:
> i'd rather move the "obsolete" incrementals out of the way into a subfolder
> (just in case).
>
> if they do not exist remotely anymore, your cache should update itself
> automatically. to make sure everything worked out you should doi a verify run
> at least after the first new incremental.
>
> ..ede/duply.net
>
> On 25.01.2013 23:25, Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> > That is indeed possible. Just remember to do it on both the local and
> > remote caches. And be careful!
> >
> > ...Ken
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Alan Gutierrez <address@hidden
> > <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
> >
> > Is it possible to restart from the last full backup?
> >
> > I am new to Duplicity. My reasoning is as follows.
> >
> > Imagine someone used to be a real shutterbug and has a "photos"
> > directory that is very large. In the last year, they've learned to just
> > enjoy the moment they've been given instead of trying to capture it, and
> > they pull out their camera only rarely.
> >
> > They have a full backup that is very large and takes a long time to get
> > up to S3. Now a quarterly full backup to add a handful of photos to that
> > full backup discourages running that full backup.
> >
> > Is it possible and sensible to instead delete the increments back to
> > that initial very large backup and do a quarterly incremental backup
> > that starts from the very large backup?
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