Re: [Duplicity-talk] remove-all-but-n-full needs --force?

[Kenneth Loafman]

Jon wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Andrew Kohlsmith (lists) wrote:
>> Good morning,
>>
>> I just noticed that my full backups for the last 6 months aren't
>> getting deleted, because apparently the remove-all-but-n-full needs
>> the --force option.
>>
>> --force is usually reserved for "you WILL shoot yourself in the foot
>> if I allow you to do this" type of operations... is it really
>> necessary to have a "Are you sure [y/N]?" option for this operation?
>>
> 
> I stumbled across the same thing a few months ago and had the same
> question. I agree that it seems odd to have to use a --force flag to
> delete old backup sets. Having to do so carries the implication that the
> user is doing something dangerous or wrong and that's generally not the
> case with routine stale archive removal.

This sounds like an idea worth exploring.  At the moment, --force is
associated with any activity that would delete backup sets, including
the cleanup command.

https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=duplicity is the place to submit
a bug report about this.

...Thanks,
...Ken

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