Re: [Duplicity-talk] Long running duplicity

[Olivier Croquette]

Jan Kratochvil wrote, On 12/01/08 20:05:
> No, the partial upload will be droppped.  Even the incremental backups need to
> completely finish or they will also get ignored.
>
> For this reason I have to backup to an external drive locally first and then
> upload the files repeatedly by rsync(1) to the remote server as the full backup
> takes about a month of upload over my instable link.

I do the exact same thing.
The first upload took me 12 days.

The nice side-effect of doing the backup locally first is that the time 
to restore decreases dramatically too in case of a crash of the main 
storage.

> Sure it is a seriously missing feature of Duplicity but the additional local
> drive is an acceptable workaround as the drive may break or it may get stolen
> without any data loss/exploit.

It would be a nice feature in Duplicity, but I think I would stick with 
the local backup with a remote sync anyway, firstly, because of the low 
restore time, but also because I didn't want to stay without a reliable 
backup at all while the data was uploaded for the first time (12 days).