Re: [Duplicity-talk] Read a tar from a pipe?

[Guillaume Filion]

Kenneth Loafman a écrit :
> Guillaume Filion wrote:
>> I would like to use a pipe instead:
>> BackupPC_tarCreate -h andre -n 684 -s \* . | \
>>   duplicity --no-encryption tar file:///var/backuppc-offsite/andre/
> [...]
> I do not understand what you're trying to do.  A pipe would allow you to
> send a single file to duplicity, which would then merely place it in the
> output backup directory, along with the other files that duplicity
> creates.  I don't see the advantage of any of that, especially since
> you're not even doing encryption.

I would like duplicity read the tar file from stdin, extract it, rdiff
each file in it and send the delta to the offsite repository.

> What exactly does BackupPC_tarCreate do?  What do you want duplicity to
> do with a single pipe interface?

BackupPC_tarCreate generates a tar file that contains the whole backup
for that PC.

Thanks,
GFK's
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Guillaume Filion
http://guillaume.filion.org/

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