Re: [Duplicity-talk] What files are needed for listing and restoring ?

[edgar . soldin]

On 17.02.2012 11:48, T. Prost wrote:
> Just read the thread from 29 Aug 2011 and as I´m encountering the same
> problem right now, I hope this is not the last conclusion of wisdom :-)

do you have a link?

> ... particularly with regard to: Each backup set has one sigtar file and
> one manifest file in addition to the difftar volumes.
> 
> Wasn´t there the further question what to do if those two files aren´t
> there ? I searched the folder with the difftar.gz files but couldn´t

yes, and the answer was to restore blindly - meaning although you can't list 
the contents in a fast fashion anymore, because the mentioned files are 
missing, you can still restore your backup. even selected paths/files from it.

> find those two.
> Search other places ?
> Able to go on without those additional data ?

yes as mentioned above

> What can I do ???
> Doing nothing means to lose whole last years work, so I´m encouraged to
> spend a "little" time on this problem !

same, same. btw. somewhen in the 0.6.x chain mt introduced a feature that keeps 
these files until you cleanup --extra-clean . an ordinary cleanup keeps them 
since then.

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