Re: [Duplicity-talk] Listing archive

[Darryl Moore]

Thanks. That is interesting behaviour which isn't clear from the
documentation.

Is there any reason for this? I don't think it would be any more work to
select the backup set based on the date passed, rather than simply
looking at the most recent. It would certainly increase its usability.

cheers,
darryl



Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> Data prior to the last full backup is not available for list or restore.
>  The previous full backups are only kept as insurance against failure of
> the current full backup.
> 
> If you want to list/restore files from a previous backup, isolate that
> backup in a different directory and run against that directory.
> 
> This is actually working as it should.
> 
> ...Ken
> 
> Darryl Moore wrote:
>> I've definitely confirmed this bahaviour.
>>
>> I'm using Duplicity 0.6.04 from the Ubuntu Jaunty repository.
>>
>> I had two sets of incremental backups previously which I could run the
>> following commands on:
>>
>> duplicity list-current-files -t 2009-10-01T15:11:00
>> scp://address@hidden/ubn.local/el-grande
>>
>> duplicity list-current-files -t 2009-10-01T15:11:01
>> scp://address@hidden/ubn.local/el-grande
>>
>> (note the slight difference in time which correspond to separate
>> incremental backups) each command would return some of the file names
>> with different time stamps like so:
>>
>> Thu Oct  1 15:17:46 2009
>> home/darryl/tuxit/scripts/scripts/install/backup_client
>>
>>
>> Thu Oct  1 16:10:58 2009
>> home/darryl/tuxit/scripts/scripts/install/backup_client
>>
>> after running a full backup this morning, both commands then only return
>> the following
>>
>> Fri Oct  2 08:14:47 2009
>> home/darryl/tuxit/scripts/scripts/install/backup_client
>>
>>
>> It would appear, at least with the 'list-current-files' command, that
>> data prior to the most recent full backup is inaccessible. I do not yet
>> know if this is also the case with the 'restore' command. I will have to
>> do some investigation to find out.
>>
>> Has anybody else experienced this?
>>
>> cheers,
>> darryl
>>
>>
>> Darryl Moore wrote:
>>> Hello again,
>>>
>>> Interestingly, I've found that the command below works when the time
>>> specified falls between incremental backup times after the most recent
>>> full backup.
>>>
>>> It only appears to fail when I specify a time prior to the most recent
>>> full backup.
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>> darryl
>>>
>>> Darryl Moore wrote:
>>>> Hello Duplicity list,
>>>> Hello Duplicity list,
>>>>
>>>> I have managed to get Duplicity working fairly well and am using
>>>> rsync.net to host my backups.
>>>>
>>>> I am trying to write a few scripts to help maintain the backups.
>>>>
>>>> I'd like to be able to list backups from various dates. I try
>>>> commands like:
>>>> duplicity list-current-files -t 2009-10-01T09:32:40
>>>> --encrypt-key=4326E843
>>>> scp://address@hidden/ubn.local/el-grande
>>>>
>>>> but no mater what date/time I use, I only ever get the most recent
>>>> listing.
>>>>
>>>> Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong??
>>>>
>>>> thanks,
>>>> darryl
>>>>
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