On Thursday 23 April 2009, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > I should point out one huge disadvantage of storing binary diffs when > using encrypted systems. There is no (practical) way to erase old > backups. Your backup storage size is bound to be ever increasing. This > is because the only way to create a new complete snapshot (i.e. - a > non-incremental backup) is to retransmit the entire backup data. Because > the remote side is encrypted, you cannot use it to expand the image > remotely.
I have not given as much thought as you to the details here, but if I read the man page correctly, duplicity does allow to --remove-older-than. I am not sure how that works though. --y
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