Dupicity is nice, but it really sucks due to 2 issues:

1. With S3, you cannot select folder as a destination INSIDE the
bucket. You can add a bucket name and thats it. It might be useful for
a simple backup, but when you want to create several backups where
each backup sits at a specific directory in the same bucket, you're
out of luck.
2. Many times it spits the entire python error, and not some simple
error messages.

I just played with duplicity for the last hour.

Thanks,
Hetz

On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Gilad Ben-Yossef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Geoff Shang wrote:
>
>  >
>  > I was thinking that I could perhaps make daily incremental tarballs,
>  > with a full backup once a month or something, as bandwidth is a bit
>  > limited at the office site (though exactly how much I'm about to find
>  > out).  But I've not had experience making incremental backups so would
>  > like suggestions as to the best schemes to use, etc.
>  >
>
>  Simple answer: use duplicity.
>
>  As an example, here is the (somewhat simplified) script we run daily via
>  cron to do a full backup every week with incremental backups each day
>  between full backups, slicing the backup into chunks of 100mb each, unto
>  the Amazon S3 grid, while encrypting everything using GPG in symmetric
>  cypher mode and keeping backups for 1 year.
>
>  #!/bin/bash
>
>  export PASSPHRASE='this password is fake'
>  export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=EXAMPLE123
>  export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=EXAMPLE567
>
>  duplicity --volsize 100 --full-if-older-than 1W /back/me/up \
>  s3+http://bucketname/
>
>  duplicity --force remove-all-but-n-full 48 s3+http://bucketname/
>
>
>  Pretty cool, I think.
>
>  Of course, it's just a single example. Read Duplicity fine manual for
>  the details
>
>
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