Re: [Duplicity-talk] incremental backups only?

[edgar . soldin]

Ken,

that's wrong. he asked on how to use the par2 backend!.. ede/duply.net

On 21.03.2017 19:45, Kenneth Loafman via Duplicity-talk wrote:
> Try the multi backend.  Look in the man page for details.
> 
> ...Ken
> 
> 
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 12:36 PM, John Covici via Duplicity-talk <
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>> On Tue, 21 Mar 2017 07:58:57 -0400,
>> edgar.soldin--- via Duplicity-talk wrote:
>>>
>>> On 21.03.2017 08:00, Raphael Bauduin via Duplicity-talk wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 8:35 PM, Kenneth Loafman <address@hidden
>> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>     Hi,
>>>>
>>>>     Long strings of incremental backups are subject to failure if one
>> of the incrementals is corrupted.  I normally do full backups once a week
>> and incrementals on the other days.  You might stretch that to two or three
>> weeks, depending on the reliability of your storage provider, but I would
>> strongly suggest at least two full, verified, backups at all times if you
>> go the long-string route.  You can always remove the incrementals once the
>> next backup and verification is done.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> OK, thanks
>>>>
>>>
>>> Raph,
>>>
>>> you may mitigate volume corruption via the par2 backend wrapper, but
>> that of course adds parity data, which you might not want if you are
>> constrained for space.
>>
>> Can you use this backend in connection with other backends?  I am
>> currently using the azure back end, but if I could get parity that
>> would be nice.
>>
>> --
>> Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
>> How do
>> you spend it?
>>
>>          John Covici
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