Re: [Duplicity-talk] --full-if-older-than 26W oddity

[Andrew Kohlsmith (lists)]

On December 11, 2008 10:16:31 am Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> > duplicity --full-if-older-than 26W --archive-dir
> > ${ARCHIVEDIR}/root --encrypt-key ${MIXDOWN_KEY} --encrypt-key
> > ${ANDREW_KEY} --include /etc --include /usr/local/scripts --exclude '**'
> > / file:///mnt/duplicity/media.mixdown.ca/root
> >
> > When I ran the backup last night, it said that the last incremental was
> > done too long ago (Oct 31 2008) and that it was going to do a full
> > backup.
> >
> > My question is why... The date on the server is correct, the timestamp on
> > the incremental backups is fine...  Am I specifying "26 weeks"
> > incorrectly?
>
> Was it that your last full was too long ago?  That's what the intent of
> the --full-if-older-than option means.  When was the last full backup?

Oct 31 2008 is not more than 26 weeks away from December 10, 2008.  :-)

-A.