[Duplicity-talk] Backuping up a whole filesystem?

[David Stanaway]

Has anyone had success using this to backup a whole filesystem?

The Example lvm script got me thinking - stream and ext3dump through and 
delta diff it with the last ext3dump.

There is potentially a lot of internal duplication within a filesystem 
aside from within a file.

EG: I have a logfile which gets rotated to logfile.1 - that is the same 
as logile in the previous backup, I don't need to send it again.
EG: I have some family pics that got emailed to me in my Family Maildir, 
I fwd the email to someone else.  The mimeenc attachment data is the 
same. I haven't tested this, but I would think you had a solid archive 
file (tar or fs dump) thhat this kind of duplications of data would drop 
out.