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[Larry Gilbert <larry+launchpad@xxxxxx>]

On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Rob Oakes <lyx-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I had only one additional thought, it would be very nice if this particular
> option offered a degree of fine control.  For example, while I often wished
> that I could simplify the number of snapshots in a particular backup set,
> but without combining all snapshots.  Let's say that only wanted to combine
> the incremental backups from a particular date range (for example, from July
> to August of 2008).  It would be wonderful to feed duplicity a command like:
>
> duplicity coalesce --incremental 2008-07-01 2008-08-31
> "ftp://path/to/archive";
>
> This would keep the more recent history available while simplifying the
> structure of the backup archive.

This sounds like a fine idea to me.

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Larry Gilbert
Computer geekery since 1976