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Differential backups (Re: Auto Coalescing Incremental Backups)

To: Plamen Kosseff <p.kosseff@xxxxxxxxx>
From: Larry Gilbert <larry+launchpad@xxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:42:57 -0700
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On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Plamen Kosseff <p.kosseff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> If I'am willing to sacrifice the ability to revert to the state in inc1 and it's bandwidth efficient (i.e. it is not over some configurable size) I will prefer not to keep the incrementals at all and do an incremental against the last full every time.

I believe this is what's known as a "differential" backup.  Maybe that
could be a new command alongside "incremental".  It seems to be a
standard feature of other backup utilities, so a good thing to put in
Duplicity as well.

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Larry Gilbert
Computer geekery since 1976
Sent from Del Mar, CA, United States

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Re: Differential backups (Re: Auto Coalescing Incremental Backups)
From: Plamen Kosseff, 2009-09-11