Re: [Duplicity-talk] problems with --remove-older-than

[Kenneth Loafman]

It depends.  I do it before the backup (14 days).  That gives me room to
do the next backup and leaves one backup always in place.  If you have
the room, do the removals last.

...Ken

Fabiano Bonin wrote:
> Should this step be done before or after the new full backup?
> 
> Is this sequence correct?
> 
> 1- full backup
> 2- incremental backup
> 3- incremental backup
> 4- full backup
> 5- remove older than last full backup, force (remove 1-3)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Fabiano.
> 
> On 7/18/07, *Kenneth Loafman* <address@hidden
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
> 
>     Whoops, that should be:
> 
>        duplicity --remove-older-than 7D --force scp://...
> 
>     The --force allows duplicity to actually delete them.
> 
>     ...Ken
> 
>     Kenneth Loafman wrote:
>     > This is a known problem.  You need to add a step before:
>     >
>     >    duplicity --remove-older-than 7D scp://address@hidden/backup/
>     >
>     > I've looked at the code and rather than fixing it, I may just force it
>     > to have those semantics.  It is comparable to --cleanup, and probably
>     > should not be run at the same time as a backup or restore.
>     >
>     > ...Ken
>     >
>     > Edward Chadwick wrote:
>     >> Hi all,
>     >>
>     >> I have set up an automated backup using duplicity, and am having
>     trouble
>     >> with the --remove-older-than option. Whether I run it as part of an
>     >> incremental command
>     >>
>     >>   duplicity --remove-older-than 7D /backup
>     scp://address@hidden/backup/
>     >>
>     >> or a full backup
>     >>
>     >>   duplicity --full --remove-older-than 7D /backup
>     >> scp://address@hidden/backup/
>     >>
>     >> it never deletes any files.
>     >>
>     >> I realise it won't delete anything that is required by more recent
>     >> backups, but after a full backup it should be able to delete
>     everything
>     >> prior to that, correct? Am I missing something?
>     >>
>     >> Thanks,
>     >>
>     >> Ed Chadwick.
>     >>
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