Re: [Duplicity-talk] Quick Question: full and remove-older-than

[Ian Barton]

> 
> Does it make sense to run a "full" backup once a month and then,
> immediately after a "remove-older-than 30D" ?  Or should I run full
> backups more frequently ?  Or less ?
> 
> I don't think I completely understand the power/approach of the
> incremental backup, and would appreciate any guidance you may have on
> how to manage a potentially ever growing backup tree.

I would suggest doing full backups more than once a month if your files
change often. In order to do a full restore, you first have to restore
the last "full" backup then all the incrementals. If you have lots of
incrementals, this can take a long time and makes you more exposed to
random data corruption errors.

If you have limited upstream bandwidth, like I do with DSL, you might
want to consider backing up locally to a usb disk and then rsyncing the
backup to your remote server.

Ian.