Re: [Duplicity-talk] --archive-dir does not download deleted local signature files

[Kenneth Loafman]

Richard Scott wrote:
>> It probably should download the remote sigs, but it was not written to
>> do that.  It would be easy enough to copy all the sigtar files back if 
>> that's what you want to do.
> 
> 
> I tried doing that with the following before running duplicity:
> 
> rsync -a address@hidden:${DEST}/*.sigtar.gz /var/lib/duplicity/
> rsync -a address@hidden:${DEST}/*.manifest /var/lib/duplicity/
> 
> But it doesn't recognise them :-(

Sorry, I told you wrong.  The remote sigs are encrypted and the local
sigs are not.  Its looking for local UNencrypted sigs, so it won't
recognize them

> Am I collecting the wrong files?

No.  My mistake.

>> I need to check to see why it did not do an incremental on the 3rd run.
>> It should have, even if you deleted the local sigs.
> 
> But if it has no signature files to compare the current file system against 
> won't it always do a
> full backup?
> 
> I'm using this as the duplicity command:
> 
> duplicity --archive-dir=/var/lib/duplicity --no-encryption ${LOCALSOURC}
> scp://address@hidden/${DEST}

If you ran it without the --archive-dir, it would have, but since there
were no local sigs, it defaulted to a full backup.

...Ken

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