Re: [Duplicity-talk] cannot remove older backup

[edgar . soldin]

On 12.05.2017 16:09, John Covici wrote:
> So, that sort of worked -- it removed things from the back end, but
> there seems to be a few files in the directory, but they are of no
> matter I suppose, the chains are definitely gone.
> 
> In future if I need to do another full backup using par2, do I need to
> do it under a separate name?  If I do that will the remove older than
> work?

as you found out duplicity does not like the par2 files unless it uses the par2 
wrapper backend. unfortunately you ended up having chains w/ and w/o par2 files 
mixed in a folder. that's not something that was anticipated during development 
stage, obviously.

next time simply choose an alternate target location (folder) when you start 
using par2 wrapper or do other major changes (like using a new duplicity 
version) eg.

duplicity full /src file://backup

 instead of

duplicity full /src par2+file://backupWithPar2

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