Duplicity backup ──────────────── This script serves as an example for what you could use. It uses duplicity in a reasonable way to create incremental backups to the FTP server of my hoster (1 full backup every 7 days, backups are kept for a month). In the second part of backup.sh, it uses xen-lvm-snapshot, a script which automatically makes and mounts snapshots of virtual machine disks. Configuration is done in common.sh (copy common.sh.example). It is safe to run this script from cron, like this: # crontab -l # m h dom mon dow command 7 4 * * * /root/bin/backup/backup.sh -- Michael Stapelberg, 2011-11-06