Re: [Duplicity-talk] Question on dealing with Archives

[Jeffrey]

Aaron, 

My first statement falls short of explaining everything I'm looking to do.  Both incremental, and occasional full backups.  Right now I've got Duplicity set (I think) to do daily incremental backups, which is great. And also a full backup every 14 days.  Before Duplicity I was using a RubyGem called Backup, which would do full backups only. The backups were not incremental and simple archives that could be extracted. But, full backups all the time are too much I think.  Duplicity seems like a nice compromise.  

My point was that if you are not using any of the incremental features or the ability to restore at various points in time etc, you do not need duplicity at all and could just create a tar.gz as normal and upload it. Tar can even handle --exclude statements etc.

My knowledge is weak when it comes to server admin so without something like Duplicity I don't know how to make that happen.   

I'll continue to experiment with this.  In the end I may just need to be more flexible or familiar with Duplicity.  

Jeff

On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 5:05 PM, Aaron <address@hidden> wrote:

Hello Jeffrey,

On 07/06/17 18:16, Jeffrey wrote:

Thanks Aaron, 

I'm sure you are right, I'm trying to bend Duplicity to my needs.  

Aren't we all!

"Alternatively, if you are just wanting a full backup that you can easily extract, is there a reason not to just do a compressed archive (e.g. a tar.gz)?" 

-is there a way to set Duplicity to create and upload to S3 a simple compressed archive like a tar.gz?   My apologies if I'm missing the obvious.  

My point was that if you are not using any of the incremental features or the ability to restore at various points in time etc, you do not need duplicity at all and could just create a tar.gz as normal and upload it. Tar can even handle --exclude statements etc.

There is not a way to make duplicity create tar.gz files -- all those extra files and diffs you do not want are how we can do the efficient incremental versions. Unless you are using duplicity for an additional reason that I am missing. Why do you think you need duplicity?

My goal is to keep things simple to deal with in the event of a problem. For example I often travel and it would love it if I could use any available device to log in to my S3 account and get usable files with what's available on the computer at hand. I'd need just a browser and FTP to be back up and running. Could be Windows, Mac, Chromebook or even a smartphone. 

As I say, if you only need one version and simplicity is key, I would just zip/tar.gz up the files and copy them onto Amazon or whatever.

Not trying to dissuade you from using duplicity, but something else may fit this use case better.

Kind regards,

Aaron

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Jeffrey Fongemie