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[Question #664091]: Multiple incremental chains on a full backup?

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From: Ville Walveranta <question664091@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2018 05:43:43 -0000
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New question #664091 on Duplicity:
https://answers.launchpad.net/duplicity/+question/664091

As far as I can tell, it is not currently possible to have more than one incremental chain on a full backup. If so, it would be a reasonable feature request. This originated from someone's question on ServerFault (https://serverfault.com/questions/891638/duplicity-is-it-possible-to-create-each-increment-based-on-last-full-and-not-la). The idea being that for simplicity of a backup (and probably more so, restore) there would be a full backup, let's say twice monthly. Between the full backups, there would be just individual, stand-alone incremental files (such as one per day), which would increase in size day by day as each incremental would include all changes since the last full, not since the previous incremental. To restore, only the last full + one incremental would be needed.

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