Re: [Duplicity-talk] Deletion of old backup sets

[Kenneth Loafman]

Florian Lindner wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm using duplicity called from cron to backup my server data each night
> to another server using SSH.
> 
> There are backup set(s) at time(s):
> Wed Jan  7 12:39:09 2009
> [... virtually every day between these dates ...]
> Thu Feb 12 06:26:14 2009
> Which can't be deleted because newer sets depend on them.
> No old backup sets found, nothing deleted.
> 
> For removal duplicity is called: duplicity remove-older-than 1M
> $TARGET/home
> 
> Does the message means that the entire backup set is not deleted? Thus
> if a set contains one file which has not been changed, the entire set
> won't be deleted? I rather thought that only the files which newer sets
> depend on are kept not the entire set.

It looks like you're only running incremental backups.  Duplicity does
not force a full backup on a regular basis, its up to you.  If this is
one full backup, followed by many incremental backups, then there is no
way to delete anything until after you have done the next full backup.

...Ken

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