Re: [Duplicity-talk] issues with exporting backups

[edgar . soldin]

On 18.03.2014 12:53, Quinn Shanahan wrote:
> Hi, I experienced two issues while "checking out" my backup:
> 
> 1. All the timestamps were reset. I read online that this could be because 
> the target does not have the user / groups the original machine did. I don't 
> really care about preserving the original user and groups, but I do want the 
> timestamps. Is there any workaround for this?

restore as root. duplicity can restore file attributes only as superuser 
somehow. dunno why.

> 2. OS X allows slashes (/) in filenames (they read as colons when printed in 
> the terminal). When duplicity creates the file, it gives it a name like: 
> AGO2OZ~A.DOC when the orginal filename was something like "ago / 
> something.doc". 
> 
> any help is greatly appreciated! I apologize if I overlooked something in the 
> doc that would explain this.
> 

that's probably a bug in duplicity, which probably occurs rarely because of the 
few mac users + the idea to name files like that. please file a bug at 
launchpad but do not expect someone to jump at solving it.

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