Re: [Duplicity-talk] Moving backup directory?

[edgar . soldin]

Should work. There are others that backup to file:// and then rsync 
elsewhere. These folks usually seem to stick to that route. For 
simplicity I guess.
Meaning, they have a local backup repository on which they do all 
duplicity operations  (incl. incrementals) and this is rsynced 
periodically to the remote repository.

Only drawback would be that duplicity should not be running while 
rsyncing out.

.. ede
duply.net

On 16.01.2010 13:08, Chris Poole wrote:
> Hi guys,
> my understanding is that all backup data is contained in files in the
> backup location directory.
>
> If I want to change backup directory by moving it somewhere, as long
> as I make the equivalent change in my Duplicity script, it won't know
> the difference?
>
> My plan is this:
>
> 1) run a full backup to a local drive.
> 2) use rsync to copy this backup directory to a remote host, so it
> doesn't matter if I cancel it and start again at some point in
> between.
> 3) change duplicity script to backup to the remote host, which should
> now do a quick incremental backup, not knowing that I've been copying
> the backup directory in step 2.
>
> Does that seem plausable? Otherwise I'll have to leave my machine on
> for several days to run a full backup to the remote host all in one
> step.
>
> Finally, since I'm encryting and signing my backups, it shouldn't
> matter if I upload to some public FTP server? (I happen to be using
> scp to a locked down host, I'm just curious.)
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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