Re: [Duplicity-talk] Frequency of full versus incremental backups?

[Simon Heimlicher]

Hi Thomas,

> 2. Is there a way to do "backup levels", so I can have monthly full
> backups, then weekly backups of the changes since the last weekly, and
> daily backups of the changes since the last daily?  That way I could
> trash the higher-resolution backups without having to restart the whole
> chain.
You are probably looking for something like the "grandfather father son" 
backup strategy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandfather-Father-Son_Backup

How you implement this with duplicity is beyond me, but I guess you 
might start by saving to several different directories on the remote 
system depending on which kind of backup you do.

Cheers,
Simon

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