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Re: [Duplicity-talk] Restart from Last Full Backup
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edgar . soldin |
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Re: [Duplicity-talk] Restart from Last Full Backup |
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Mon, 18 Feb 2013 10:08:04 +0100 |
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*no*. duplicity only creates fulls if
- configured via --full-if-older-than
or
- no full can be found
what did your log output say?
.ede/duply.net
On 18.02.2013 09:19, Alan Gutierrez wrote:
> 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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