Re: [Duplicity-talk] Possibility to delete only incremental backups?

[Kenneth Loafman]

Axel Beckert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is there a possibility to delete only incremental backups before some
> time? In the man page of duplicity 0.4.1 (as shipped with Debian
> Sarge) I only found "--remove-older-than". Is such a feature perhaps
> present in a newer version?

No, not at present, and not planned, yet.

> If not:
>
> Which files can I manually delete from the backup if I want to remove
> the incremental backups to a full backup, but not the full backup
> itself?

duplicity-inc-*
duplicity-new-*

> And how hard is it to include such a feature in future versions of
> duplicity? :-)

I think there would be issues to be resolved.  Deleting all the 
incrementals between full backups would be OK.  Selectively deleting 
incrementals could cause some holes in your backup.  There may be more.

...Ken