Re: [Duplicity-talk] remove-older-than

[William Anderson]

Steve Crook wrote:
> According to the duplicity manpage:
> 
>  --remove-older-than time
>    Delete all backup sets older than the given time.  If old backup
>    sets  will  not be deleted if backup sets newer than time depend
>    on them.  See the TIME FORMATS section for more information.
> 
> My backup configuration performs an incremental backup each day and then
> a full one each week.  Because of the full one, I wouldn't expect newer
> backup sets to depend on anything older than a week. This expectation
> seems to be false as the size of my backup filesystem still increases
> over time until I forcefully delete the content and invoke a manual full
> backup.
> 
> Can anyone suggest a backup strategy that will not incur this manual
> intervention every few weeks?

Are you using --remove-older-than on the same command line as your
backup?  I found that you have to run this standalone separate from your
backup job, i.e.

duplicity --full --exclude=[blah] / scp://[blah]
duplicity --remove-older-than 8D --force scp://[blah]

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