Re: [Duplicity-talk] Understanding "Aborting because you may have accidentally..."

[Jeremy Miller]

I actually run all my backups with the "--allow-source-mismatch"
switch.  With the massive amount of backups I take I do not have time
to recreate everything sometimes if one of the backups servers fail
and metadata is lost.  After restoring, sometimes it doesn't realize
it's the "same" dataset and thinks by default duplicity won't
overwrite and existing backup with the same name.  Have you
reinstalled or changed your GPG keys?  Some change has occurred and
the backup location and the backup source are no longer synced and
they do not know they are "related" anymore.  I hope that makes sense.

Jeremy

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 4:52 PM, address@hidden
<address@hidden> wrote:
> I am using duply + duplicity to backup my local machine.
>
> The last backup I ran was a full backup (the second full backup to my backup
> directory). Today I am trying to run an incremental backup, but receive this
> error instead:
>
> "Aborting because you may have accidentally tried to backup two different
> data sets to the same remote location, or using the same archive directory.
> If this is not a mistake, use the --allow-source-mismatch switch to avoid
> seeing this message."
>
> Does anybody know what this is about? I read the manual but am still a bit
> confused on what I am doing wrong.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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