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#2 Re: Unattended, Encrypted, Incremental Network Backups: Part 1 Posted by Anonymous (80.177.xx.xx) on Wed 10 Aug 2005 at 13:40 "Restoring traditional incremental backups can be painful if one has to apply each incremental backup by hand. Duplicity automatically applies the incrementals to the full backup without any extra intervention." Restoring incrementals can be painful, but useful if you want to restore back to a specific date, rather than the latest backup. Backups are about recovering from user screwups which may go unnoticed for days, as much as recovering from a fried hard drive. So I'd be interested to know: do you just end up with a single snapshot style backup, or can you restore to any one of the incrementals? -- mark

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