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Keeping a full but removing incr

Asked by Chris Stankaitis

We currently keep 6M of backup's but beyond the current month we only want to keep the monthly full for the past X months and get rid of the daily incr. I have been unable to find how to do this in duplicity. We're backing up a lot of data and want to implement this retentions strategy to conserve space.

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edso (ed.so) said : 		#1

On 07.09.2011 22:15, Chris Stankaitis wrote:
> New question #170481 on Duplicity:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/duplicity/+question/170481
>
> We currently keep 6M of backup's but beyond the current month we only want to keep the monthly full for the past X months and get rid of the daily incr. I have been unable to find how to do this in duplicity. We're backing up a lot of data and want to implement this retentions strategy to conserve space.
>

this is currently not implemented duplicity as a command but possible indeed. simply delete all files belonging to the incrementals on the backend.

duplicity-inc.DATE.to.DATE.volX.difftar.gpg
duplicity-inc.DATE.to.DATE.volX.manifest.gpg

consider to move files in a tmp folder, do a verify run just to be sure and delete tmp folder only thereafter.

ede/duply.net

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