Re: [Duplicity-talk] Re: bug or not: --archive-dir and full backup

[Kenneth Loafman]

Jan-Wijbrand Kolman wrote:
> Thomas Seliger wrote:
>> Interesting what different people want from the --archive-dir option ;).
>> So how is --archive-dir supposed to work?
> 
> I'm not experienced enough with duplicity yet to really "want"
> something from --archive-dir. However, the current behavior (0.4.3) is
> confusing (to me):
> 
> The man page states the sig file are kept locally with the
> --archive-dir option, but I'm not sure what the intention is regarding
> having sig files at the remote and *as well*.
> 
> Still, duplicity pushes the sig file to the remote end anyhow. Then,
> with an subsequent incremental backup it warns you that it found an
> orphaned sig file (on the the remote end).
> 
> This seems contradicting behavior to me, at least if it comes to
> providing feedback to me as a user. And hence my question about the
> intention of the option.

I think the warning is contradictory as well.  The idea behind a backup
is that anything you need is on the remote system in case of a disaster.
 Not having the sigs on the remote should be a problem.

>> So maybe this goes also into a feature request direction. I like local AND 
>> remote signatures. Duplicity uses the local sigs for faster operation, but 
>> also stores encrypted signatures on the remote end (and tries to use remote 
>> sigs automagically when it does not find local sigs). So in case of a 
>> disaster (lost local signatures), I can use the remote signatures.
>>
>> Although I understand that keeping local AND remote signatures creates 
>> transportation overhead, which you might want to avoid. Of course there is 
>> always the option to add another switch like --local-sigs-only ;).
> 
> This explanation (or feature request, for that matter :) makes most
> sense to me. I *think* this behavior is basically what duplicity has
> now (0.4.3), if only the warning would be gone...

I'm going to make the change where there are both local and remote sigs,
and only warn if one or the other is missing when it should be there.

...Ken

signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature