That adds complexity to the restore process and doesn't solve the
problem of losing your backup after cycling through the incrementals
once.
I don't see how it adds complexity to the restore. You just mount your firewire disk and copy the stuff back. If you want stuff from earlier backups you just go rdiff-backup --restore-as-of 4Days /my/lost/file
as i said, its like rsync, only you get the old stuff, not just deleted files, but changes made to files. So you have a complete mirror, PLUS a rdiff-backup-data dir which contains versions of your old stuff.
You then have to run a seperate command to clean up the old increments you don't want any more. It also compresses the increments so you save space again. If you are worried about restoring from remote location, scp will work with rsync, or rdiff-backup. Its really pretty simple but often misunderstood.
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