Re: [Duplicity-talk] empty cache folder

[edgar . soldin]

ok, regarding that - did you see the answer from the author and my questions 
regarding it?
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.duplicity.general/5763
that should shed light on the issue. 

not having manifest/signature without deleting them is another thing though. 
you should probably start with a new full and keep an eye out when they 
disappear. keep the logs, maybe ran in debug verbosity, for the time being.

are you doing manual backups or using cron? what are your command lines like?

..ede/duply.net

On 26.12.2012 15:11, Druzee wrote:
> No.
> 
> I tried stopping and resuming the backup on that machine and it works. which 
> leaves me even more clueless on why the backup does not resume on the other 
> machine.
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 4:03 PM, <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>> 
> wrote:
> 
>     that was on the 500+ backup, what about the 1000+ one? ever did a cleanup 
> or remove-* on that?
> 
>     ..ede
> 
>     On 25.12.2012 15 <tel:25.12.2012%2015>:50, Druzee wrote:
>     > Nope... no cleaning.
>     >
>     > Like i said, duplicity stopped responding (after resuming from a 
> notebook suspend, moved to a different network), i killed it, when i reran 
> the command line i suddently saw that it starts running from volume 1 again...
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 4:44 PM, <address@hidden 
> <mailto:address@hidden> <mailto:address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>>> 
> wrote:
>     >
>     >     On 25.12.2012 15 <tel:25.12.2012%2015> <tel:25.12.2012%2015>:34, 
> Druzee wrote:
>     >     >>does that backup (1000+) verify? ..ede
>     >     >>
>     >     >>On 25.12.2012 14 <tel:25.12.2012%2014> <tel:25.12.2012%2014>:50, 
> Druzee wrote:
>     >     >>>/ Ineed the folder on S3 does not have a "manifest" (or 
> "sigtar") file like i /
>     >     >>>/ have in a different one. I am 100% sure that i did not erase 
> any file from /
>     >     >>>/ S3. What even more worries me is that on a different, 
> currently active backup /
>     >     >>>/ set that i have with over 1000 volumes the manifest file is 
> also missing./
>     >     >
>     >     > I am no where near that machine and the backup is still active. 
> but i did try listing the files and it doesn't look good.
>     >     >
>     >     > Using archive dir: 
> /home/xxxx/.cache/duplicity/146a0d0ed53e8c25f4437132c5de0087
>     >     > Using backup name: 146a0d0ed53e8c25f4437132c5de0087
>     >     > Import of duplicity.backends.localbackend Succeeded
>     >     > Import of duplicity.backends.webdavbackend Succeeded
>     >     > Import of duplicity.backends.ftpbackend Succeeded
>     >     > Import of duplicity.backends.sshbackend Succeeded
>     >     > Import of duplicity.backends.tahoebackend Succeeded
>     >     > Import of duplicity.backends.cloudfilesbackend Succeeded
>     >     > Import of duplicity.backends.ftpsbackend Succeeded
>     >     > Import of duplicity.backends.botobackend Succeeded
>     >     > Import of duplicity.backends.gdocsbackend Succeeded
>     >     > Import of duplicity.backends.hsibackend Succeeded
>     >     > Import of duplicity.backends.imapbackend Succeeded
>     >     > Import of duplicity.backends.u1backend Failed: No module named 
> httplib2
>     >     > Import of duplicity.backends.rsyncbackend Succeeded
>     >     > Main action: list-current
>     >     > 
> ================================================================================
>     >     > duplicity 0.6.20 (October 28, 2012)
>     >     > Args: /usr/bin/duplicity list-current-files s3://bucket/Pictures/ 
> -v9
>     >     > Linux null 3.6.10-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Dec 11 09:40:17 CET 
> 2012 x86_64
>     >     > /usr/bin/python2 2.7.3 (default, Dec 12 2012, 07:12:24)
>     >     > [GCC 4.7.2]
>     >     > 
> ================================================================================
>     >     > Local and Remote metadata are synchronized, no sync needed.
>     >     > 0 files exist on backend
>     >     > 0 files exist in cache
>     >     > Extracting backup chains from list of files: []
>     >     > Last full backup date: none
>     >     > Collection Status
>     >     > -----------------
>     >     > Connecting with backend: BotoBackend
>     >     > Archive dir: 
> /home/xxxx/.cache/duplicity/146a0d0ed53e8c25f4437132c5de0087
>     >     >
>     >     > Found 0 secondary backup chains.
>     >     > No backup chains with active signatures found
>     >     > No orphaned or incomplete backup sets found.
>     >     > Using temporary directory /tmp/duplicity-obOjuZ-tempdir
>     >     > Traceback (most recent call last):
>     >     >   File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1403, in <module>
>     >     >     with_tempdir(main)
>     >     >   File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1396, in with_tempdir
>     >     >     fn()
>     >     >   File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1334, in main
>     >     >     list_current(col_stats)
>     >     >   File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 599, in list_current
>     >     >     sig_chain = col_stats.get_signature_chain_at_time(time)
>     >     >   File 
> "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/duplicity/collections.py", line 979, in 
> get_signature_chain_at_time
>     >     >     raise CollectionsError("No signature chains found")
>     >     > CollectionsError: No signature chains found
>     >     >
>     >
>     >     nothing to worry for now. the metadata is only there so 
> incrementing and listing files can be done without downloading the *big* 
> volumes again.
>     >     if the volumes are proper you should be able to restore perfectly.
>     >
>     >     did you by any chance ran cleanup --extra-clean or something like 
> that?
>     >
>     >     ..ede
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