Re: [Fwd: Re: [Duplicity-talk] How do you list all files since the backup chain started]

[edgar . soldin]

Generally yes,

as its now one has to restore, to find out what's in a specific backup 
(if it's not the current).
But what I'd really like to see, although not  as urgent as the above .. 
is the initially requested functionality (quoting Richard here)

> Is it possible to list all files in a chain since the last full backup started?
>
> For example, lets assume I do a full backup on a Sunday and incremental backups 
> at any other time.
> If I then edit a file each day it should get backed when the incremental is 
> executed.
>
> How can I get to see a list of these files? Something like this is what I have 
> in mind:
>
> Sun Oct 5 10:52:11 2008 myfile
> Mon Oct 6 10:52:11 2008 myfile
> Tue Oct 7 10:52:11 2008 myfile
> Wed Oct 8 10:52:11 2008 myfile

also some more infos about size and last modification time etc. could be 
helpful. Is that possible with the current internal data model?

read me? :) sincerely ede
--
> Ede,
>
> I did read it and promptly got busy on something else.  Sorry.
>
> It seems to me that what you want would be a new feature to implement
> the --list-at-time function of rdiffbackup.  I don't see it as that hard
> to accomplish.  It just needs to be prioritized into the mix.  Right now
> I'm more concerned with proper error handling and error recovery, so I
> would not put the priority as high as that.
>
> Please put this into the support list as a requested feature.  Perhaps
> someone could come up with a patch to support it.
>
> ...Thanks,
> ...Ken
>
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> > Hi Ken,
> >
> > have you read this? .. regards ede
> >
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject:     Re: [Duplicity-talk] How do you list all files since the
> > backup chain started
> > Date:     Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:54:57 +0200
> > From:     Edgar Soldin <address@hidden>
> > Reply-To:     Discussion of the backup program duplicity
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> > To:     Discussion of the backup program duplicity
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> > References:
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> > Ken, Peter and Python Developers,
> >
> > is it difficult to implement this? Would somebody be willing to?
> > Generally .. is the conclusion right so far?
> >
> > regards ede
> >
> >     
> > > > > Hmmm, interesting. I tried that using "09-10-2008" as the time for
> > > > > both -t and --restore-time
> > > > > together with --list-current-files but I'm still seeing files from
> > > > > yesterdays backup on the 11th
> > > > >  too :-(
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >       
> > > > >           
> > > > doublechecked http://duplicity.nongnu.org/duplicity.1.html ,
> > > > TIME_FORMATS .. and tried it myself
> > > > and can only conclude that the current in list-current-files plus the
> > > > rstore-time switch are
> > > > hints to tell me that only the most current backups content can be
> > > > listed
> > > >     
> > > >         
> > > That's a shame as there is a feature in rdiff-backup (--list-at-time)
> > > to display what files were
> > > available x time ago. I'd hoped that this may have also crept into
> > > duplicity! :-)
> > >
> > > Rich.
> > >
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