Re: [Duplicity-talk] how to tell duplicity to NOT sign (want to encrypt to public key only)

[Andrew Kohlsmith (lists)]

On May 29, 2008 01:23:01 pm Gabriel Ambuehl wrote:
> If you use
>       --archive-dir path
>               When  backing up or restoring, specify the local archive
> directory.  This option is not necessary, but if hash data is found
>               locally in path it will be used in preference to the remote
> hash data. Use of this option does not imply  that  the  archive
>               data  is  no  longer  stored  in  the  backup destination,
> nor that the local archive directory need be kept safe. The local
>               archive directory is a performance optimization only, and may
> safely be discarded at any time.
>
> This is neatly solved and allows for unattended public key backups. It's
> potentially a lot faster to boot because you do not need to download the
> signatures at the beginning.

I figured it out.  --archive-dir was right, but I had a problem with the keys.

I had to sign the public key with my private key.  GnuPG was crapping out 
because the key wasn't signed.

-A.