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

Peter,

as you seem to be working on it. the solutions i see are 

1. make the time stamp copy/pasteable (your suggestion)
 or
2. add the current pretty format to the parsed time formats (less invasive)

don't like an additional time format option (we've got too many options 
already).

Ken,Mike: opinions?

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