R: [Duplicity-talk] archive-dir option meaning

[Bonvicini, Alessandro]

HI , many thanks for your response.

If I understand well I cannot delete the old sitar and manifest file cause  I 
have created my backup with archive-dir option set.


There is a problem, my local manifest and sigtar directory grows everyday and 
slowly take many gbytes of space and slowly take up my harddisk. 
What policy can  I use to limit the sigtar grow? Please, I would like to make a 
full backup only one time a year, is it possible to discard sigtar in any way ? 
I use 05.15 version. 
If I redo my archive without archive-dir option the sigtar and manifest will be 
present again on client?

Thank 
Alex


-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden Per conto di Kenneth Loafman
Inviato: giovedì 18 giugno 2009 19.46
A: Discussion of the backup program duplicity
Oggetto: Re: [Duplicity-talk] archive-dir option meaning

Bonvicini, Alessandro wrote:
> But the man page state that "The local archive directory is a 
> performance optimization only, and may safely be discarded at any time."

Under 0.6.0, the archive-dir is used by default to keep persistence, so yes, it 
is needed.  I thought I had changed the man file...whoops.

> So , I don't want redo a full archive , what can I do?

Revert to 0.5.18 at http://duplicity.nongnu.org/ and all will work as it used 
to, less checkpoint/restart.  This is the easiest solution.

or, restore the archive-dir to the command line and if you have not deleted the 
actual dir, it should start with an incremental.

or, if you have deleted the archive-dir, do:
  1) create ~/.duplicity/backup-name and cd to it
  2) copy *sigtar* *manifest* files from remote to local
  3) use gpg to decrypt the files just downloaded

Sorry for all the confusion.

...Ken





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