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Re: [Duplicity-talk] command for default behavior?


From: Jacob
Subject: Re: [Duplicity-talk] command for default behavior?
Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 18:25:59 -0400

On 8 Jun 2008 21:05:13 -0000
"Dan Gomet" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> a small thing, but somewhat inconvenient when scripting: is there a command 
> that reproduces the "default backup behavior" (incremental backup, but switch 
> to full if not possible)?
> 
> I'd propose two new commands, e.g. "backup" and "restore", in addition to 
> full, incr etc. These commands could also help prevent annoyances when 
> inadvertently switching the source and destination args on the command line. 
> Such mistakes can very easily happen when using bash history, even to 
> experienced users.

There's actually a "restore" command already. As for "backup", would it be just 
easy to use the incremental command? I'd think that would fall back to full if 
no backups exist.

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