On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 5:00 AM,
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On 08.01.2012 22:03, Ken Bass wrote:
> I've got an rdiff-backup from Windows to Linux for my Desktop and My Documents folder.
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> I am basically using duplicity to backup the rdiff-backup results to an offline site.
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> My "Desktop" folder is rather large (over 1G).
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> The problem is that duplicity did the initial full backup two nights ago. After it completed, I waited a few hours and ran everything manually, and saw that a small incremental was created since nothing had changed. When I got up this morning, all 1G was re-uploaded. Why in the world is duplicity uploading things that have not changed? It only did this for my Desktop, no other folders. Just as a sample I used the restore option to grab the original backup and last nights large incremental. When I compared a few files they were identical. What in the world would cause this and how would I go about find out why?
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> To avoid the wasted money and bandwidth, I have reduced the size of my backup, blew away my backup, and am starting over.
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> I don't have the archive anymore, but I do have a verbose level 5 log.
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files are also backed up on timestamp changes.. please compare those too. duplicity backing up unnecessary because some software touched files is a known issue.
Instead of using rdiff-backup results, why not just backup the desktop using duplicity directly. IOW, use both if you need to.
...Ken