Comment 22 for bug 490188

I'd very much like to see the 2-week threshold for full backups to be reconsidered. I want daily (or more frequent) backups to ensure that my latest changes are safe. I'm backing up a reasonable amount of slowly-changing data (50GB or so) over a typical US cable provider connection (1.5 Mbit up; I usually get uploads of about 150 kBytes/s) to a cloud provider. This means a full backup takes 4-5 days continuously.

This is problematic for two reasons:
1. I'm tied up doing full backups for 4-5 days out of every 14.
2. During the 4-5 day full uploads, I have no current (daily) backups.

I understand the aversion to making this configurable, but the defaults chosen work so poorly in my case that I'm looking for other backup solutions, or rolling my own with duplicity. Would be great to get data on what people's needs and rates are, but in the absence of that data, letting users change this (even in a config file) would help mitigate the absence of data. If I had to choose, I'd do a full backup no more often than once every 3 months.

(I'm on deja-dup v22.0, current for Ubuntu Precise LTS; please correct me if this has been changed in a more recent version -- the changelog doesn't suggest any.)