Re: [Duplicity-talk] Failures w/ S3 backend

[Maurizio Vitale]

On Mar 12, 2009, at 3:51 PM, Peter Schuller wrote:

> > > A fair number of folks use Amazon for massive backups, so I don't
> > > think
> > > that's the problem.
> > anybody care to state system and command line used?
>
> Modified for privacy, here is a sample cmdline from a full backup used
> in a situation where I have hundreds or thousands of volumes backing
> up tens or hundreds of GB of data:
>
> /root/duplicity/duplicity-bin full --allow-source-mismatch --s3-use- 
> new-style --s3-european-buckets --archive-dir PATH/ 
> duplicity_archives_s3/SETNAME --num-retries 500 --volsize 25 -v5  
> monthly s3+http://BUCKET/SETNAME
you have a good deal of flags I'm not using. I presume --s3-european- 
buckets doesn't affect me, but the remaining are worth a try. Thanks.

> PATH, SETNAME and BUCKET were the only replacements for privacy.
is this for privacy or security? I haven't filtered mine in my logs  
on the basis that if someone has my AWS id and secret key they can do  
whatever they want, while if they don't, just knowing the bucket name  
shouldn't help, should it?

> This is however not yet with .10 or .11, so if the problem is recently
> introduced, assuming it's a duplicity problem, the above is
> irrelevant.
I'll keep the list posted on progress, so that people can look at the  
archives.

Thanks again,

        Maurizio