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Re: [Duplicity-talk] Deleting specific full backups?


From: edgar . soldin
Subject: Re: [Duplicity-talk] Deleting specific full backups?
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 10:24:58 +0200
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On 13.06.2013 07:14, Leigh Dyer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm currently doing full backups once a week, with regular incrementals in 
> between, and then using "remove-all-inc-of-but-n-full" to delete incrementals 
> on backups over six months old.
> 
> I'd like to maintain full backups indefinitely, but after a certain point, 
> I'd prefer to retain, say, one full backup from each month, rather than 
> keeping a full backup from each week.
> 
> I don't think this is possible using duplicity itself, but would it break 
> anything if I wrote a separate script to delete the those full backup files? 

not if done properly. full backups are the start of a chain and completely 
independent.

>Would I be better off taking the time to patch something like this in to 
>duplicity instead?

of course! this way more people would profit from your idea.


..ede/duply.net



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