Re: [Duplicity-talk] command for default behavior?

[Kenneth Loafman]

Jacob wrote:
> On 8 Jun 2008 21:05:13 -0000
> "Dan Gomet" <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> a small thing, but somewhat inconvenient when scripting: is there a command 
>> that reproduces the "default backup behavior" (incremental backup, but 
>> switch to full if not possible)?
>>
>> I'd propose two new commands, e.g. "backup" and "restore", in addition to 
>> full, incr etc. These commands could also help prevent annoyances when 
>> inadvertently switching the source and destination args on the command line. 
>> Such mistakes can very easily happen when using bash history, even to 
>> experienced users.
> 
> There's actually a "restore" command already. As for "backup", would it be 
> just easy to use the incremental command? I'd think that would fall back to 
> full if no backups exist.

That is correct.  For backup, with no command present, the default is
'incremental', so just leave off any command and you have the default.

...Ken

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