Re: [Duplicity-talk] Frequency of full versus incremental backups?

[Kenneth Loafman]

Thomas Tuttle wrote:
> 1. Any advice?  I don't have any sort of statistics on how often I
> change files, so what kind of behavior can I expect from duplicity?  Is
> it better to just pile up incrementals and keep only two full backups
> (perhaps the last two months), or is it better to do full backups more
> often?

I would suggest at most a week or two between full backups.  Any
corruption found during a monthly restore and 29 days of incrementals
could be a real disaster.  Murphy almost guarantees you'll be past
mid-month when the backup is needed.

> 2. Is there a way to do "backup levels", so I can have monthly full
> backups, then weekly backups of the changes since the last weekly, and
> daily backups of the changes since the last daily?  That way I could
> trash the higher-resolution backups without having to restart the whole
> chain.

There are no backup levels, yet, but that is a good idea for a future
enhancement.

> 3. Is there a way to cache the catalog files client-side, so at least
> when backing up, I don't need to fetch them constantly?

--archive-dir is supposed to do that, but a previous poster had some
problems with it and I've not had the chance to confirm the problem.

...Ken