Re: [Duplicity-talk] --full-if-older-than 26W oddity

[Kenneth Loafman]

Andrew Kohlsmith (lists) wrote:
> Good morning,
> 
> I've been using duplicity for about 6 months, and I upgraded (reinstalled) 
> one 
> of the servers I back up, It's been 2 months since I ran a backup last.
> 
> My typical backup line looks like this:
> 
> duplicity --full-if-older-than 26W --archive-dir 
> ${ARCHIVEDIR}/root --encrypt-key ${MIXDOWN_KEY} --encrypt-key 
> ${ANDREW_KEY} --include /etc --include /usr/local/scripts --exclude '**' / 
> file:///mnt/duplicity/media.mixdown.ca/root
> 
> When I ran the backup last night, it said that the last incremental was done 
> too long ago (Oct 31 2008) and that it was going to do a full backup.
> 
> My question is why... The date on the server is correct, the timestamp on the 
> incremental backups is fine...  Am I specifying "26 weeks" incorrectly?

Was it that your last full was too long ago?  That's what the intent of
the --full-if-older-than option means.  When was the last full backup?

...Ken

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