[Duplicity-talk] Question about restore vs verify

[Felix Natter]

Dear duplicity community,

I am currently testing my backup in two ways:

(a) running a "duplicity verify" right after having created the backup:
$ duplicity verify $DUPLICITY_OPTS --compare-data file://$DEST/weekly/ /repos/TOBEBACKEDUP/

(b) (every week) copying the backup from the cloud to file://.../weekly/ and then using "duplicity restore":

$ duplicity restore $DUPLICITY_OPTS file://.../weekly/ /repos/restored/

-> (b) had already detected a checksum error when the backup on the cloud had not been uploaded properly.

Question: Is there a benefit of additionally using "duplicity verify" on the downloaded cloud backup
(obviously without --compare-data):

$ duplicity verify $DUPLICITY_OPTS file://.../weekly/ /repos/TOBEBACKEDUP/

In other words: Is the purpose of "verify" that it only temporarily stores the restored backup contents
(more convenient), or does it do something else that "restore" doesn't do?

Of course I read the man page, but couldn't find this piece of information.

Many Thanks and Best Regards,

Felix

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Felix Natter
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