Re: [Duplicity-talk] Duplicity Maintenance

[Kenneth Loafman]

Gabriel Ambuehl wrote:
> On Saturday 19 May 2007 20:47:59 Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> > What you want is the equivalent of an incremental backup.  That's
> > possible, but if if you plan your backup strategy to do full backups on
> > a reasonable basis, then there should be no file out of date by more
> > than a week or so, even if an incremental is corrupted somehow.
>
> Well a full backup of my 5GB home over a 5mbit/500kbit Cable link takes about 
> 24h. But incremental data is perhaps 200MB which I can do in a reasonable 
> time. 
>
> Having the notebook run 24h each week is not really feasible to me (after all, 
> it means I can't take it with me a whole day!). And since duplicity sometimes 
> randomly stops updating it's rdiffs, I'd very much like a incremental backup 
> mode, myself.

Nothing is set in stone, but this would be an option, not locked in.

...Ken