[Duplicity-tracker] [patch #6806] More graceful handling of old --short-filename files

[Michael Terry]

URL:
  <http://savannah.nongnu.org/patch/?6806>

                 Summary: More graceful handling of old --short-filename
files
                 Project: duplicity
            Submitted by: mikix
            Submitted on: Sun 12 Apr 2009 02:20:15 PM EDT
                Category: None
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

So in 0.5.10, the file naming was changed to make --short-filenames and
--time-separator unnecessary.  Duplicity recognizes the old-style filenames
and will write new files with the new-style.  So one chain will have both
old-style and new-style names.

This is great.  It provides a graceful way to migrate to new style without
creating a new backup chain.

However, the same graceful migration was not done for any existing
--short-filenames ("short") files.  This causes the user to continue to use
the --short-filenames option until they make a new fresh backup.  And
even/once they do, if they want to restore from old chain, they have to
remember to use --short-filenames.

This patch makes duplicity recognize short files even if short filenames is
not specified explicity.  It allows a graceful migration to the new naming
scheme for any short filename users.

You may wonder why bother at this point, 0.5.10 has been out for a while,
anyone affected probably already went to the new scheme:

1) Lets anyone still using --short-filenames just drop it and have everything
still work.  I think this patch should be a prerequisite before you ever
actually remove the --short-filenames option (as indicated will happen due to
the deprecation).

2) Not everyone has moved to 0.5.10.  Notably, Ubuntu 9.4 will ship with
0.5.09 and all Ubuntu users will be bitten by this naming change once 9.10
comes out.

3) Deja Dup can't gracefully migrate users that backup to FAT devices without
this change.  Right now, Deja Dup first checks if the user has any short files
already there, and passes --short-filenames if any are.  I would like to drop
this and just never user --short-filenames to migrate to new file naming
scheme and reduce this complexity.

There's a bzr branch for this at
'lp:~mterry/duplicity/graceful-short-filenames'.  Is that useful?  The
attached patch was created by using bzr diff on the two branches.



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Date: Sun 12 Apr 2009 02:20:15 PM EDT  Name: graceful-short-filenames.patch 
Size: 7kB   By: mikix

<http://savannah.nongnu.org/patch/download.php?file_id=17909>

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