Re: [Duplicity-talk] Backup plan daily weekly monthly

[edgar . soldin]

On 07.06.2016 03:57, James Corteciano via Duplicity-talk wrote:
> Hi Guys,

sorry overlooked it.

usually you would just do weekly fulls with incrementals inbetween and thin out 
the old backups according to the specific needs.
unfortunately that's not possible with duplicity as the purge commands are not 
evolved enough to selectively delete as specific as you need.

what you could consider apart from running 3 separate backups could be backing 
up into monthly folders, switching the target according to current date. this 
way you would only have one backup profile to maintain and could clean up the 
target folders using duplicity as you like/need.

..ede/duply.net

> Anyone could share your thoughts if these approach can possibly be done in 
> duplicity?
> 
> I am trying to achieve keeping backups on this kind of normal way. 
> 
> Daily = 14 days to keep - incremental - schedule (Sun-Thu)
> Weekly=8 weeks to keep - full - schedule (every Friday)
> Monthly=6 months to keep. - full - schedule (every last friday of the month).
> 
> Looking forward to hear your advise.
> 
> Thanks.
> James
> 
> 
> On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 5:57 AM, James Corteciano <address@hidden 
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi,
> 
>     These are my backup plans:
> 
>     Daily = Triggered from Sunday to Thursday.
>     Weekly = Triggered every Friday
>     Monthly = Triggered every last Friday of the month.
> 
>     I have bash script to accomplish this scheduling with cron jobs.
> 
>     Currently, my settings are:
> 
>     Daily = Incremental backup = 14 days retention period
>     Weekly = Full backup = 8 weeks retention period
>     Monthly = Full backup = 6 months retention period
> 
>     I am just a bit confuse on how can I accomplish this backup plan approach 
> when it comes in retention period.
> 
>     Basically, I have created to backup profile:
> 
>     1) Backup-daily_weekly/conf:
>     .....
>     MAX_FULLS_WITH_INCRS=14
>     MAX_FULL_BACKUPS=8
> 
>     2.) Backup-monthly/conf:
>     .....
>     MAX_FULL_BACKUPS=6
> 
> 
>     I would like to check with you if the above backup settings are good 
> enough or if you have advise I would appreciate it.
> 
>     Thank you.
>     James
> 
> 
> 
> 
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