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

[edgar . soldin]

I want to abstract it as follows

Needed is functionality that lists file versions over backup chains in a 
repository, printing the different versions similar to below. 
Additionally to the reference output of  --list-current-files the column 
filesize and datetime of the containing backup should be added.

I suggest the following:

a general "list-files" command, which allows listing of files in the 
selected repository narrowable by time frame and/or in/exclude statements

*duplicity list-files **[*/options/*]* //target_url

reasonable options would be: --in/exclude , new --start-time --end-time 
options (short -ts -te ?, defaulting to first backup to now)
CHALLENGE here:
 to format a list containing different files and versions. Maybe like this

/path/myfile
Sun Oct 5 10:52:11 2008 131791 in 2008-10-05T23:00:00
Mon Oct 6 10:52:11 2008 131791 in 2008-10-06T23:00:00
Tue Oct 7 10:52:11 2008 131791 in 2008-10-07T23:00:00
Wed Oct 8 10:52:11 2008 131791 in 2008-10-08T23:00:00
/path/myfile2
Sun Oct 5 10:52:11 2008 131791 in 2008-10-05T23:00:00
Mon Oct 6 10:52:11 2008 131791 in 2008-10-06T23:00:00
Tue Oct 7 10:52:11 2008 131791 in 2008-10-07T23:00:00
Wed Oct 8 10:52:11 2008 131791 in 2008-10-08T23:00:00
...

this is the file path and name, followed by
mod time, size in bytes (be made human readable?), the term "in" (as a 
separator), datetime string (representing the backup)

I am not sure if datetime couldn't be better formatted, but idea is to 
create a string reusable in a restore action later.


Open for comments .. I want to put as feature request on the support 
tracker.

regards ede
--

> address@hidden wrote:
>   
> > 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
> >     
>
> Something like this would indeed be handy and I'm sure it could be done
> fairly easily.  What duplicity could add to the mix was the size of the
> change stored versus the original file size.
>
> ...Ken
>
>
>   
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> _______________________________________________
> Duplicity-talk mailing list
> address@hidden
> http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/duplicity-talk
>