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  1. Information on using Duplicity  dpbackup script
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  3. http://duplicity.nongnu.org/
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  6. Summary
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  9. Duplicity has been around since 2002,  I'm testing with v0.5.14, v0.6.16
  10. Duplicity is similar to rdiff-backup, however instead of creating a mirror of files
  11. on the remote device, duplicity compresses ( and optionally encrypts ) them.
  12. We are NOT using encryption for backups.
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  14. Duplicity in it's simplest form is run like this.
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  16.     duplicity       /source_dir      scp://host.net/target_dir
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  18. However, logging and emailing results need to be handled in a wrapper script.
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  22. Wrapper
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  25. Several wrapper scripts are available on the duplicity site,  for using duplicity with Amazon S3
  26. and local storage.
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  28. Since none of the scripts were ideal,  I've taken the best feature and written dpbackup.
  29. Available here:   ftp://4aero.com/pub/dpbackup/
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  31. Use
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  33. dpbackup is edited for your desired source directory and storage location
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  35. Call dpbackup like this:
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  37. dpbackup                     - incremental backup
  38. dpbackup full                - Full backup
  39. dpbackup stats               - Show statistics of all backups.
  40. dpbackup restore dir         - Restore 'dir' inside backup location NO LEADing or TRAILing slashes !
  41. 			       enclose in single ' parenthesis for embedded spaces.
  42. dpbackup --help              - print use summary
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  44. Logs
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  47. Logs are stored ,  normally in /home/user/logs/,   Separate logs for Full and Incremental.
  48. Logs for the same day are concatenated together.
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  50. Email
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  53. The logfile for the day is emailed after each backup to the designated user.
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