Re: [Duplicity-talk] listing files in a backup session [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[edgar . soldin]

On 25.08.2015 07:18, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> If i run a collection-status i get an output like :
> 
>  Type of backup set:                            Time:      Num volumes:
>                 Full         Sun Aug 23 21:00:03 2015               334
>          Incremental         Mon Aug 24 21:00:03 2015                 8
>          Incremental         Tue Aug 25 10:07:23 2015                 2
>          Incremental         Tue Aug 25 11:36:50 2015                 1
>          Incremental         Tue Aug 25 13:25:46 2015                 1
>          Incremental         Tue Aug 25 13:36:52 2015                 1
>          Incremental         Tue Aug 25 13:37:59 2015                 1
> 
> If i try and see what the 8 files in the first incremental are using
>       duplicity list-current-files -t "Mon Aug 24 21:00:03 2015"
> scp://address@hidden:54321//backup/
> I get the following error
>       duplicity: error: Bad time string "Mon Aug 24 21:00:03 2015"
> 
> so a few things,
> 
> how do i get the collection-status to output a date that is suitable for
> copy/paste straight back into itself.

you do not currently. feel free to offer a patch.

valid time formats can be found on the manpage
 http://duplicity.nongnu.org/duplicity.1.html#sect8

> 
> how do i see what those eight files (directories ??) are ?

manually list your backend's files (eg. ftp backend w/ lftp). the file's naming 
scheme should be obvious to you.
 
> just looking to make instructions for restores so it can seem a bit more
> straight forward.
> so far it is looking complex to try to find and restore a file (or
> directory) that is NOT the current version.

yeah, there is still a lot of room for enhancement in this area. 
always dreamt of making the list command support file filters and time frames 
so you could find versions of files/folders in several backups. but, that's a 
dream so far.

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