Re: [Duplicity-talk] Duplicity failing during initial full backup over SSH/SCP

[Kevin Elliott]

Kevin Elliott wrote:
> Adam Wendt wrote:
> > One idea would be to do a local backup and then scp the files over to
> > the remote server, that way you can easily just continue with the ones
> > left over if it fails. Now of course this requires you have enough
> > space to store the backup on your local server initially.
>
> Adam,
>
> Thank you for the response, this is helpful. I've seen this response 
> once before, but I noticed there was concern about the way the signing 
> works when you make a local backup, and then scp/rsync it over to a 
> remote host as a bootstrap, and then doing incrementals the normal way.
>
> Should I make my backup process always backup locally to preserve 
> proper local signage, and always rsync over ssh the local copy to my 
> remote storage?
>
> Can you provide an example script with options to duplicity to support 
> this?

Adam, or other,

Any further thoughts on my questions above?

Thanks again,

Kevin