[Duplicity-talk] restoring timestamps

[Seb Wills]

When I try to restore a backup of another user's files, naturally 
duplicity is unable to restore the correct owner to the files, giving 
"Error '[Errno 1] Operation not permitted: ...". But this situation also 
seems to prevent it from restoring the modification timestamps. Is this by 
design, or by accident?

In my opinion it would make sense for duplicity to restore the archived 
timestamps even if it cannot restore the correct file ownership.

My quick hack to effect this enhancement is to move the call to 
os.chown(), which is throwing the error, in path.py, to below the calls to 
os.utime() and os.chmod(). I guess a neater solution would be to catch the 
exception, print a helpful message, and continue the normal flow of 
execution.

seb