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I once had a spectacular accident where duplicity managed to delete most of my local file system on a (misguided) partial restore attempt. After that I went ba
by nn3 6y ago
I once had a spectacular accident where duplicity managed to delete most of my local file system on a (misguided) partial restore attempt.
After that I went back to good old tar/cpio (for incrementials)+gpg and haven't looked back. While they have their quirks, they're at least well understood quirks, and they're never going to delete your file system under you.
- viraptor 6y ago> and they're never going to delete your file system under you. So you haven't used tar with --recursive-unlink yet?
- nn3 6y agoI knew someone would come up with a counter example. Or restoring over the block device. But at least these mistakes are easy to avoid. While with duplicity destruction was fairly easy.
- andrewchambers 6y agoAuthor here - I agree, I can't stress enough how important it is for a backup system to be totally reliable. I hope to do future posts compare reliability in adverse conditions such as low memory, full disk, etc.