Re: [Duplicity-talk] Why do I have a 19GB ~/.cache/duplicity folder?

[Kenneth Loafman]

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>> Sigtar files contain the signatures for the backups and they can be
>> quite large if your backup is large.  They should not be needed for
>> listing old content.  Maybe we need to rethink the listing mechanism.
>> All the data for listing should be available in the difftar files.
> 
> the signatures are needed to decide if a file changed since last backup,
> right? .. ede

Yes, but they are not needed for old backups.  The current full backup
makes them obsolete since you'll not need to add to an older backup.

...Ken

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