Re: [Duplicity-talk] Purging, purge-full, not working?

[edgar . soldin]

On 22.08.2014 11:52, Karl Buckland wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been using Duply for a few months to backup up a handful of servers to 
> Amazon S3. So far it's been working brilliantly.
> 
> I'm running Debian Squeeze on all of them, which ships with Duply 1.5.5.5. 
> However I have also tried using the latest 1.8.0 in order to ensure that my 
> issue hasn't already been fixed. I have the same issue with both versions 
> (and the equivalent commands for each).
> 
> Either I'm not using the purge commands properly, or it's not working.
> 
> I currently have Duply set up to do a full backup once a month, with 
> incrementals every day, with these settings:
> MAX_AGE=3M
> MAX_FULL_BACKUPS=3
> MAX_FULLS_WITH_INCRS=3
> MAX_FULLBKP_AGE=1M
> DUPL_PARAMS="$DUPL_PARAMS --full-if-older-than $MAX_FULLBKP_AGE "
> VOLSIZE=250
> DUPL_PARAMS="$DUPL_PARAMS --volsize $VOLSIZE "
> 
> When I run the 'status' command, I can see:
> Full backups: April 27, June 18, Jul 19, Aug 19
> Incrementals: June 18 onwards
> This is correct, as I originally ran a full backup and then left it for a 
> little while before getting it to run regularly.
> 
> However, when I issue the 'purge' command, it lists out all files, full and 
> incremental up to August 17th. I get this even if I issue the purge command 
> as 'purge 3M' or 'purge 90D' or anything similar. It ignores my commands and 
> appears to be ignoring the config file too?
> 
> I see the same issues with the purgeFull 3 and purgeIncr 3 commands. They 
> ignore the config file and the arguments passed to them and they list 
> everything up until the last week or so.
> 
> Have I misunderstood the commands and config file, or is there a legitimate 
> issue?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any assistance.
> 

not sure if i understand properly. please send (attach, paste or pastebin)

- duply conf file (obfuscate private strings in it before)
- the complete output of 'duply <profile> status'
- the complete output of 'duply <profile> purge'

..ede/duply.net