[Duplicity-talk] Newbie, trying to synchronise encrypted data

[Arnd Grossmann]

Hello All,

I am a system administrator in Berlin, Germany and 
working in the educational sector.

I am trying to use duplicity to synchronise files 
between different computers and a central server all 
running linux.

This is not actually what I understand duplicity was 
made for but it is the only way I could figure out to 
keep my files encrypted on transport and on the 
central server.

My problem is, that duplicity will not restore the 
files to an existing folder. If I try to use the 
force-option it will restore but will not do an 
incremental restore.

So I can incementally backup my files to the server from 
one or more machines but cannot restore to any of 
these without downloading all the files again.

Do you know a way to make duplicity restore 
incrementally to an existing folder?

Thank you for any advice. I read the man page and I will 
read it again an apologise a hundred times if it is in 
there somewhere.

Beste Regards
Arnd


I use the following commend:

duplicity --allow-source-mismatch --tempdir /media/some_disk --encrypt-key 
MYKEY MYDIR scp://USER:address@hidden/MYDIR

btw: At the moment I am just gpg-encrypting a gzipped 
tarball which I have to transmit as a whole everytime 
something changed.
This is worse for sure. So duplicity does make things 
better even if it works only one way.
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