Comment 1 for bug 383867

I was thinking along the same lines, but I had hoped that it could be done automatically rather than forcing the user to configure it. For example, the underlying backup tool duplicity has an option to make a new full backup if the previous one is older than X days. We could turn this on at some reasonable time (maybe 3 or 6 months).

I haven't done that yet because all of a sudden one of your backups would be taking a full day. I was waiting until duplicity got the ability to resume from an aborted backup. That way Deja Dup could just start a long backup and it wouldn't block the user's ability to get on with their life, so they wouldn't care how long it took, in theory. Duplicity's maintainer is working on this functionality right now.

Does that sound like a plan?