Re: [Duplicity-talk] Incremental Backups always against the last full snapshot

[Eliot Moss]

On 12/17/2011 7:17 AM, Jan Niggemann wrote:
> Am 17.12.2011 13:06, schrieb Daniel Weigl:
> > Wouldn't it be good, to have a option to set duplicity to calculate
> > all incrementals against the last full snapshot. I know that these
> > means the incrementals will grow over the time, but on the other hand
> > restores would be much faster.
> I like the idea, that way a corrupted increment would not result in a broken 
> chain.
> Well, there wouldn't be a chain anyway, just 1:n (last_full : increments)...

A number of other backup programs offer this feature.
It is generally called a *differential* backup.

Regards -- Eliot Moss