[ale] encrypted differential backups

[Brian Pitts]

On 08/30/2009 10:27 PM, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> 
> Quick question about duplicity.   Does it have to d/l the previous
> backups to determine the incremental changes?   For instance, if I run
> "duplicity /var/log s3://host/bucket/", once it does the initial full
> backup (which could be GBs) what does it do to determine what to build
> the incremental list from next time it runs?
> 

I think it keeps local signature files to avoid this. [0] Setting up
duplicity to s3 is on my to-do list, not my done list. There's a
graphical frontend for setting this up called deja-dup. [1]

[0] http://duplicity.nongnu.org/duplicity.1.html
[1] https://launchpad.net/deja-dup

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All the best,
Brian Pitts