I filed this feature request as bug 1170161. The untested patch is there.
- Dave Cottingham
From: "edgar soldin" <address@hidden>
To: "Discussion of the backup program duplicity" <address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 1:26:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Duplicity-talk] suggested feature to help Amazon Glacier users
send the link when it is there and i'll have a look. later on it would make sense to a a bzr branch, which is the preferred way for contributions by the maintainer.
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On 17.04.2013 19:21, address@hidden wrote:
> Yes, I'll put this on launchpad. I just put together a patch to implement this scheme. At my plodding pace it will take a while for even rudimentary testing. But in the process I noted that the way duplicity handles filenames, it looks feasible to have mixed new and old style filenames in a backup chain. In my patch, I use a new switch (--alternate-filenames) to direct what kind of filenames to produce, but it was straightforward to rewrite the regexps used to parse filenames to eat either kind. One concession I had to make was to make changes only at the beginning of filenames, so manifests in my scheme have the string "manifest" twice.
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> - Dave Cottingham
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> *From: *"edgar soldin" <address@hidden>
> *To: *"Discussion of the backup program duplicity" <address@hidden>
> *Sent: *Wednesday, April 17, 2013 12:07:54 PM
> *Subject: *Re: [Duplicity-talk] suggested feature to help Amazon Glacier users
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> On 17.04.2013 16:15, Will McCown wrote:
>> for and incremental. I would suggest changing it to:
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>> duplicity-full-signatures.<date>.sigtar.gpg
>> duplicity-full-manifest.<date>.gpg
>> duplicity-full.<date>vol<n>.difftar.gpg
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> just to keep completely in the scheme i'd add 'diff' to the difftar as well.
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> duplicity-full-signatures.<date>.sigtar.gpg
> duplicity-full-manifest.<date>.gpg
> duplicity-full.diff.<date>vol<n>.difftar.gpg
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> aside from that, fully agreed. of course there has to be a fallback to the old naming scheme, or even simpler a major version change signalling incompatibility plus a switch to use the old naming scheme.
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> additionally there was interest in configuring the named prefix (currently 'duplicity') on this list. could be tackled at the same moment then.
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> could you add a feature request on launchpad, so this will not be forgotten?
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