Re: [Duplicity-talk] Archive Dir and Hosts

[Tim Riemenschneider]

AJ Weber schrieb:
> It is my (admittedly vague) understanding that in my archive-dir (
> $HOME/.cache ) for me, there are copies of signature files and
> information for the Duplicity backups.  Further, there seem to be some
> (if not all) that are host-specific.
>
> That is, while I was testing, I used the IP Address as my target,
> backup-server.  Then I used a host-name.  When I switched between the
> two, duplicity seems to have had a much longer run and was refreshing
> its local cache or something like that.
>
You might want to check the man-page of duplicity, see options
--archive-dir and --name.
(In short, the option --name defaults to a hash of the target url, so a
different url (even when it refers the same target) results in a
different cache-dirs.

cu
Tim