Re: [Duplicity-talk] Can't delete duplicity s3/glacier archives?

[edgar . soldin]

On 29.07.2022 22:15, Henry S. Thompson via Duplicity-talk wrote:
> For backing up my system to s3, I'm running:
>
>   - duplicity 0.8.17
>   - Python 3.9.2
>   - boto3 '1.24.36'
>
> My daily backups run fine.  As desired they are moved from s3 to
> glacier after a month, duplicity status shows everything as it should,
> with monthly full backups and daily incrementals, going back 62
> months, e.g.
>
>    Secondary chain 54 of 62:
>    -------------------------
>    Chain start time: Sun Oct 24 02:05:01 2021
>    Chain end time: Tue Nov 23 02:05:01 2021
>    Number of contained backup sets: 31
>    Total number of contained volumes: 8223
>     Type of backup set:                            Time:   Number of volumes:
>                    Full         Sun Oct 24 02:05:01 2021              6450
>             Incremental         Mon Oct 25 02:05:02 2021                64
>                   ...[30 more incrementals]...
>
> But when I try to prune old incrementals
>
>    duplicity remove-all-inc-of-but-n-full 7 --force boto3+s3:///[bucket name]/
>
> I get
>
>    Local and Remote metadata are synchronized, no sync needed.
>    Last full backup date: none
>    No old backup sets found, nothing deleted.
>
> I've searched and found nothing.
>
> Is the problem perhaps because the older archives are on glacier? The
> metadata is all on s3 as it should be...

looks wrong indeed.

can you please post _full_ command lines (obfuscate private strings) for

- daily backup
- status (with working result)
- remove-all...

are the AWS env vars identical, so you are 100% tat you are accessing the same 
bucket? ..ede/duply.net