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Re: [Duplicity-talk] Full backups strategy
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Jacob |
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Re: [Duplicity-talk] Full backups strategy |
Date: |
Sat, 10 May 2008 21:59:59 -0400 |
On Sat, 10 May 2008 21:56:55 -0400
Yang Zhang <address@hidden> wrote:
> Is the main reason for doing full backups periodically the fear of some
> incremental piece on the backup server getting corrupted, thus
> preventing recovering of everything after it? Do most folks (using
> duplicity for personal data) back up daily and force a full backup once
> a month or so? Thanks.
I usually do it when the full+incremental downloads get really long. Full
backups take quite a few hours to complete, so I do them as little as possible.
I'm not as worried about corruption as much as I am about sitting and waiting
for my desktop computer to finally finish. ;)