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Re: [Duplicity-talk] Daily Incremental Restore
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edgar . soldin |
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Re: [Duplicity-talk] Daily Incremental Restore |
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Sun, 19 Feb 2012 16:15:42 +0100 |
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On 19.02.2012 16:01, Cornelius Keller wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I Just started using duplicity und liked it very much due to its easy of use.
> Backing up my server to s3 just took me half an hour, including installation
> and doc reading. That is nice, thank you to everybody who is involved.
>
> I also tried to use a duplicity restore to keep my development server up to
> date with the data from the production system.
> Restoring the data went just fine, but when I tried to set up a cron job to
> keep it up to date, I noticed that I have to use the --force option, because
> the destination folder is of cause already prestent on disc.
> I had the impression that duplicity with the force option is overwriting the
> wohle folder, instead of syncing it.
> Is this correct?
yes
> And if so, is there a way to do just an incremental restore of what has
> changed?
no, that's why there is the --force option to make sure you know what you're up
to.
what's the rationale against rsync instead of duplicity for this purpose?
..ede/duply.net