Re: [Duplicity-talk] incremental backups only?

[edgar . soldin]

On 21.03.2017 08:00, Raphael Bauduin via Duplicity-talk wrote:
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> On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 8:35 PM, Kenneth Loafman <address@hidden 
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
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>     Hi,
> 
>     Long strings of incremental backups are subject to failure if one of the 
> incrementals is corrupted.  I normally do full backups once a week and 
> incrementals on the other days.  You might stretch that to two or three 
> weeks, depending on the reliability of your storage provider, but I would 
> strongly suggest at least two full, verified, backups at all times if you go 
> the long-string route.  You can always remove the incrementals once the next 
> backup and verification is done.
> 
> 
> OK, thanks
> 

Raph,

you may mitigate volume corruption via the par2 backend wrapper, but that of 
course adds parity data, which you might not want if you are constrained for 
space.

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