Re: [Duplicity-talk] Full backups every second Saturday?

[edgar . soldin]

On 30.12.2016 15:31, Grant via Duplicity-talk wrote:
> I'm running unattended backups and using --full-if-older-than 30D but
> a lot of the time it uploads a full backup on a weekday which causes
> the users sharing the network with my backup server to run into
> bandwidth problems.  How best to do full backups something like every
> second Saturday of the month?
> 
> I was thinking I could just run the first backup on a Saturday and do
> --full-if-older-than 28D but then I'd have to remember to run the
> first backup on a Saturday if I start over again at some point.
> 

you probably use cron to run duplicity anyway. simply use it to run duplicity 
full/incr on the days as you want to.

wrt. "full backups something like every second Saturday of the month" let 
yourself inspire by cron trickery similar to
  https://www.google.de/search?q=cron+last+sunday+of+month

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