Re: [Duplicity-talk] cannot remove older backup

[John Covici]

By name I mean the  --name parameter on the duplicity command line.

On Fri, 12 May 2017 10:43:50 -0400,
edgar.soldin--- via Duplicity-talk wrote:
> 
> if your cloud backend has no folders, but containers, well then containers ;)
> 
> what do you mean by name? ..ede
> 
> 
> On 12.05.2017 16:37, John Covici wrote:
> > 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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