Re: [Duplicity-talk] Re: gpg passphrase requested twice

[Kenneth Loafman]

Dan Muresan wrote:
>> would it be possible to request the GPG passphrase only once when the
>> archive already exists (or, at least, when the command is list or
> 
> Annoyingly, duplicity asks for an unused passphrase (twice!) even when
> the --encrypt-key is active and there is no --sign-key (i.e. when no
> passphrase is needed or usable). It then dutifully hands GPG a
> passphrase that is ignored.
> 
> Furthermore, when restoring from such a repository, duplicity again asks
> for the (now required) passphrase for the secret key. Again, twice, just
> to be sure...
> 
> A workaround for the backup step is to set an empty PASSPHRASE
> environment variable. This, I guess, is a lesser annoyance than having
> to enter the passphrase (twice.)

What version of duplicity are you running?

Duplicity does need the passphrase in the case where --encrypt-key is
used and its not a 'full' backup.  It has to decrypt parts of the
previous backup in order to do the incremental.

...Ken

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