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

[Grant]

>> 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


So I should separate my duplicity command into two commands with a
separate full command and incremental command and let the crontab
decide which one to run each day?  That sounds a little wonky.
Perhaps I should set up a condition in the backup script to insert
either 'full' or 'incremental' into the duplicity command based on an
evaluation of the date.  Any better ideas?

- Grant