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Re: [Duplicity-talk] Full backups strategy
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Peter Schuller |
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Re: [Duplicity-talk] Full backups strategy |
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Sun, 11 May 2008 10:25:47 +0200 |
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> 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.
If the available disk space on the destination is limited, that becomes a
major reason as well. If you keep doing incrementals until the past backups +
a full new backup won't fit (even temporarily), you're in trouble.
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