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

[edgar . soldin]

On 10.06.2013 21:29, James Patterson wrote:
>>>> 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?
> 

looks like it does
http://duplicity.nongnu.org/duplicity.1.html

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