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Re: [Duplicity-talk] Restart from Last Full Backup
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edgar . soldin |
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Re: [Duplicity-talk] Restart from Last Full Backup |
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Sat, 26 Jan 2013 10:15:55 +0100 |
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i'd rather move the "obsolete" incrementals out of the way into a subfolder
(just in case).
if they do not exist remotely anymore, your cache should update itself
automatically. to make sure everything worked out you should doi a verify run
at least after the first new incremental.
..ede/duply.net
On 25.01.2013 23:25, Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> That is indeed possible. Just remember to do it on both the local and remote
> caches. And be careful!
>
> ...Ken
>
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Alan Gutierrez <address@hidden
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>
> Is it possible to restart from the last full backup?
>
> I am new to Duplicity. My reasoning is as follows.
>
> Imagine someone used to be a real shutterbug and has a "photos" directory
> that is very large. In the last year, they've learned to just enjoy the
> moment they've been given instead of trying to capture it, and they pull out
> their camera only rarely.
>
> They have a full backup that is very large and takes a long time to get
> up to S3. Now a quarterly full backup to add a handful of photos to that full
> backup discourages running that full backup.
>
> Is it possible and sensible to instead delete the increments back to that
> initial very large backup and do a quarterly incremental backup that starts
> from the very large backup?
>
> --
> Alan Gutierrez ~ @bigeasy
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