Re: [Duplicity-talk] Full backups strategy

[Jacob]

On Sat, 10 May 2008 21:56:55 -0400
Yang Zhang <address@hidden> wrote:

> Is the main reason for doing full backups periodically the fear of some 
> incremental piece on the backup server getting corrupted, thus 
> preventing recovering of everything after it?  Do most folks (using 
> duplicity for personal data) back up daily and force a full backup once 
> a month or so?  Thanks.

I usually do it when the full+incremental downloads get really long. Full 
backups take quite a few hours to complete, so I do them as little as possible.

I'm not as worried about corruption as much as I am about sitting and waiting 
for my desktop computer to finally finish. ;)