Re: [Duplicity-talk] how much metadata does duplicity store between runs

[Sitaram Chamarty]

On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 7:21 PM, Kenneth Loafman <address@hidden> wrote:
> Sitaram Chamarty wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I'm currently unable to install duplicity on my Mandriva system
>> without jumping through quite a few hoops, so I thought I'd just ask
>> instead of doing all that to find the answer to my question.
>
> If the instructions are bad / not enough / wrong, please let me know.

No it's not that at all.  Some of the dependencies also seem to be
unavailable as RPMs, and I seem to have atrophied to the (st)age where
I no longer do things like getting a pristine tarball and install from
scratch!  My problem (or Mandriva's, at most) entirely, I assure you.

> That's what the signature files are about.  Hashes are stored for each
...
> Well below 5% of the total backup would be metadata.

Thanks for validating my understanding.

Regards,

Sitaram