Re: [Duplicity-talk] Keep running out of space on restore

[edgar . soldin]

On 13.12.2012 19:26, Monte Milanuk wrote:
> On 12/13/2012 09:07 AM, address@hidden wrote:
>>
>>> Assuming I download the 0.6.20 tar ball and unpack it, once I run
>>> 'python setup.py install' that should install it to the
>>> site-scripts directory, right?  Do I need to un-install the
>>> distro-managed package first?  What about the extra back-end
>>> packages?
>>
>> which extra packages? and yes generally duplicity is installed
>> globally via setup routine, so clean out the distro duplicity first.
>>
> 
> Sorry, 'depends' wasn't the right terminology... 'suggests' would be more to 
> the point, and to the best of my knowledge, those packages got pulled in when 
> I installed duplicity.
> 
> machin-sin data # apt-cache depends duplicity
> duplicity
>   Depends: libc6
>   Depends: librsync1
>   Depends: python2.7
>   Depends: python
>   Depends: python
>   Depends: python-gnupginterface
>   Suggests: python-boto
>   Suggests: ncftp
>   Suggests: rsync
>     rsync:i386
>   Suggests: ssh
>   Suggests: python-paramiko
>   Conflicts: duplicity:i386
> 
> Although... I'm pretty sure I'm not going to be using the boto interface.  
> Maybe the rsync and ssh, eventually.
> 

these are generally needed anyway, or when using some specific backend.. so 
just keep'em

 
>> what i usually do is installing duplicity to a user account only
>> placing everything within one folder. this way you can keep several
>> duplicitys handy. see under TIP
>> http://duply.net/?title=Duply-documentation
>>
> 
> Okay.... that seems to be working so far - its further along than its ever 
> been, and it hasn't started filling up the root partition, thank goodness.
> 
> Its a little stickier of a solution than I would prefer.  I think maybe its 
> time for me to put a bug in the ear of the distro package maintainers and ask 
> them nicely to update said package?
> 

what do you mean by sticky?

and.. whats your distro? there are rpms and ubuntu packages on the webpage 
http://duplicity.nongnu.org/

..ede