Re: [Duplicity-talk] Signature files not being deleted

[Chris Poole]

Have you tried running `duplicity cleanup --force`?

I believe this is what it's designed to do.


Cheers

Chris Poole

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Roy Badami <address@hidden> wrote:
> I've just started experimenting with duplicity, and I'm seeing two issues
> with signatures not being removed when backups are deleted.
>
> First issue:
>
> From a clean state, perform two full backups, then issue
>
> duplicity remove-all-but-n-full 1 --force ...
>
> The older backup (and its manifest) is successfully removed, but the
> signatures are left behind at the destination.  They are deleted from the
> local cache, but of course are synced back from the destination on the next
> run.
>
> Second issue:
>
> From a clean state, preform the following:
>
> duplicity full ...
> duplicity incremental ...
> duplicity incremental ...
> duplicity full ...
> duplicity incremental ...
> duplicity incremental ...
>
> Then run
>
> duplicity remove-all-but-n-full 1 --force ...
>
> In addition to the previous issue, orphaned signature files are left behind
> for the two old incremental backups.  The incremental backups themselves
> (and their manifests) are correctly deleted, but the signatures are left
> behind (both at the destination and in the cache).  Duplicity issues a
> warning about local orphaned signature files.
>
> This is with 0.6.13 to an ssh backend.
>
> Am I missing something?  --extra-clean isn't really what I'm looking for as
> it's probably a little more aggressive than I want.
>
> roy
>
>
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