Re: [Duplicity-talk] duplicity - verify if backup needed

[edgar . soldin]

On 08.12.2011 15:18, eleanor wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I would like to know if there's a way with duplicity to check if
> backup is required - that is to check if there are any
> modified/deleted/added files in the chosen directory.
> 
> The command that I'm using now is:
> 
> # duplicity --dry-run --ssh-options /home/testing
> scp://address@hidden/backup/testing
> GnuPG passphrase:
> Local and Remote metadata are synchronized, no sync needed.
> Last full backup date: Thu Dec  8 15:03:51 2011
> --------------[ Backup Statistics ]--------------
> StartTime 1323353254.65 (Thu Dec  8 15:07:34 2011)
> EndTime 1323353273.39 (Thu Dec  8 15:07:53 2011)
> ElapsedTime 18.74 (18.74 seconds)
> SourceFiles 93438
> SourceFileSize 11116428 (10.6 MB)
> NewFiles 0
> NewFileSize 0 (0 bytes)
> DeletedFiles 0
> ChangedFiles 0
> ChangedFileSize 0 (0 bytes)
> ChangedDeltaSize 0 (0 bytes)
> DeltaEntries 0
> RawDeltaSize 0 (0 bytes)
> TotalDestinationSizeChange 0 (0 bytes)
> Errors 0
> -------------------------------------------------
> 
> In this output se can see that the files have not been
> added/modified/deleted - which is probably written in the local
> indexing file - used by duplicity.

--dry-run is the option for this use case, duplicity does not have an indexing 
file. what do you mean by that?

> The problem with this is that the local directory has 310MB of data
> and the data is not synchronized. How can I check whether the data is
> actually in sync or not.
> 

what is the problem with using --dry-run?

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