Re: [Duplicity-talk] Big bandwidth bill from Rackspace

[James Patterson]

> >> Does anyone know if perhaps the "verify" part of backup_verify_purge is
> >> doing something traffic intensive?
> >> 
> 
> yes. essentially it restores any file of the latest backup and compares
> it to the original path in the local file system. therefore pretty much
> all the last full and the incremental volumes have to be downloaded
> again.
> 
> verify less regularly or do full's more often. but however you turn this,
> it's gonna cost with cloud space. this is the main reason for me to stick
> with cheap hoster ftp backup space.

Ah. Any chance the man page could explain this?

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