Re: [Duplicity-talk] remove-all-inc-of-but-n-full <num> and decryption

[Kenneth Loafman]

Being dense, sorry!

Whenever you see Synchronizing remote metadata to local cache, duplicity is going to need your passphrase in order to decrypt the manifest.  It's encrypted on the remote, but not on local, so the local copy has to be decrypted.

...Ken

On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 10:31 AM, Dirk-Willem van Gulik <address@hidden> wrote:

Yes, absolutely. This is in a long fuctioning tower of Hanoi incr/full dump setup. 

To which we now want to add auto cleanup of ancient dumps/superseded incrementals. With as little credentials as possible. 

Note the prompt for a gpg password. 

Dw. 

On 29 Oct 2015, at 14:26, Kenneth Loafman <address@hidden> wrote:

Is backup-xs-key set up without a passphrase?

Can you ssh into the target manually?

On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 7:02 AM, Dirk-Willem van Gulik <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 29 Oct 2015, at 12:57, Dirk-Willem van Gulik <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> On 29 Oct 2015, at 12:41, Kenneth Loafman <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> The newest versions do not.  What version are you running?
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> the ‘un’stable branch: duplicity 0.7.02 under python 7. Worth going to the 7.05 — nothing springs out in the release messages.

No joy on 7.05

$/usr/local/bin/python2.7 /usr/local/bin/duplicity-7.05 \
        remove-all-inc-of-but-n-full 2 \
        --ssh-options "-oIdentityFile=/home/backup-xxx/backup-xs-key”  \
        pexpect+sftp://address@hidden
Synchronizing remote metadata to local cache..
GnuPG passphrase: …
ctrl-C
$

which version should I go to ?

> Dw
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>> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 12:06 PM, Dirk-Willem van Gulik <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Can someone help me understand why the ‘remove-all-inc-of-but-n-full’ et.al. flags of a pub-key-ed backup require the decryption key (while the basic info needed seems accessible to flags like collection-status without such key) ?
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>> Much appreciated,
>>
>> Dw
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