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

[edgar . soldin]

On 06.03.2010 16:32, Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> address@hidden wrote:
>>> 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

makes perfect sense, thx ede