Re: [Duplicity-talk] Migrating from no archive dir to one

[Kenneth Loafman]

Michael Terry wrote:
> When I have an existing backup created without --archive-dir, and on
> my next incremental backup, I all of a sudden use an --archive-dir,
> the archive dir doesn't end up with all the files I'd expect.
> 
> It only has the incremental signatures, not the 'full' signature.  And
> doing a subsequent cleanup (with --archive-dir) gives an error because
> it tries to cleanup the orphaned signature, but can't find it in the
> backup directory.
> 
> I'd expect that it would synchronize the remote and local signatures
> and make a local copy.  Am I doing something wrong, is this a bug, or
> just a known not-supported use case?

Bug or known not-supported use case, your pick.

If you want to populate the archive dir after the fact, copy all the sig
and manifest files to the archive and decrypt them using gpg.

The checkpoint/restart capability will force the use of the archive dir,
soon to be called the cache dir, since I need it to keep state.  If the
backup does not complete, it will contain partial manifest and signature
files that will be completed when the backup restarts.

...Ken

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