Re: [Duplicity-talk] cannot remove older backup

[John Covici]

By new folder, do you mean a new azure storage container, or a new
name for my backups or both?

On Fri, 12 May 2017 10:21:54 -0400,
edgar.soldin--- via Duplicity-talk wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> ..ede/duply.net
> 
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