Re: [Duplicity-talk] incremental backups only?

[John Covici]

Thanks guys, I will check this out.  I have a lot to back up, so I
don't want to do full backups often.

On Tue, 21 Mar 2017 14:45:55 -0400,
Kenneth Loafman wrote:
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> Try the multi backend. Look in the man page for details.
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> ...Ken
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> On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 12:36 PM, John Covici via Duplicity-talk 
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>  On Tue, 21 Mar 2017 07:58:57 -0400,
>  edgar.soldin--- via Duplicity-talk wrote:
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>  > On 21.03.2017 08:00, Raphael Bauduin via Duplicity-talk wrote:
>  > >
>  > >
>  > > On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 8:35 PM, Kenneth Loafman <address@hidden 
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>  > > Hi,
>  > >
>  > > Long strings of incremental backups are subject to failure if one of the 
> incrementals is corrupted. I normally do full backups once a week and 
> incrementals on the other days. You might stretch that to two or three weeks,
>  depending on the reliability of your storage provider, but I would strongly 
> suggest at least two full, verified, backups at all times if you go the 
> long-string route. You can always remove the incrementals once the next 
> backup and
>  verification is done.
>  > >
>  > >
>  > > OK, thanks
>  > >
>  >
>  > Raph,
>  >
>  > you may mitigate volume corruption via the par2 backend wrapper, but that 
> of course adds parity data, which you might not want if you are constrained 
> for space.
> 
>  Can you use this backend in connection with other backends? I am
>  currently using the azure back end, but if I could get parity that
>  would be nice.
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