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Re: [Duplicity-talk] --archive-dir documentation in man page
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Kenneth Loafman |
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Re: [Duplicity-talk] --archive-dir documentation in man page |
Date: |
Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:31:45 -0500 |
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Thanks, I'll see what I can do to better explain the issue.
...Ken
address@hidden wrote:
> The man page discusses the --archive-dir option twice:
>
>> *--archive-dir */path/
>> When restoring, specify the local archive directory. This option
>> is not necessary, but if hash data is found locally in /path/ it
>> will be checked against remote files.
>>
>
> and
>
>> To save bandwidth, duplicity generates full signature sets and
>> incremental signature sets. A full signature set is generated for each
>> full backup, and an incremental one for each incremental backup. These
>> start with *duplicity-full-signatures* and *duplicity-new-signatures*
>> respectively. If *--archive-dir* is used, these signatures will be
>> stored locally only, which further saves bandwidth.
>
> The second paragraph implies that the option is used for storing as well
> as restoring. This should be explained better in the first paragraph.
> I'd write a proposed correction myself, but I only just started playing
> with this option and don't pretend to understand it well.
>
> Bob
>
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