Re: [Duplicity-talk] old backups are not deleted

[edgar . soldin]

On 06.03.2017 22:46, Fazekas László via Duplicity-talk wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I've a duplicity backup script, something like this:
> 
> ...
> duplicity --no-encryption --full-if-older-than 1W /var/backups/hotcopy-dup 
> s3://...
> ...
> duplicity remove-older-than 2M --force s3://...
> 
> The second part should delete my old backups, but it doesn't. It says:
> 
> Last full backup date: Sat Feb 25 22:17:37 2017
> There are backup set(s) at time(s):
> Mon Dec 26 23:59:29 2016
> Tue Dec 27 00:00:56 2016
> Tue Dec 27 01:17:03 2016
> Wed Dec 28 01:17:02 2016
> Wed Dec 28 17:54:00 2016
> Wed Dec 28 19:25:45 2016
> Wed Dec 28 22:17:02 2016
> Thu Dec 29 22:17:03 2016
> Fri Dec 30 22:17:02 2016
> Sat Dec 31 22:17:02 2016
> Sun Jan  1 22:17:03 2017
> Mon Jan  2 22:17:02 2017
> Tue Jan  3 22:17:03 2017
> Wed Jan  4 22:17:02 2017
> Thu Jan  5 22:17:03 2017
> Which can't be deleted because newer sets depend on them.
> No old backup sets found, nothing deleted.
> 
> Why newer sets depends on backups before 2017.02.25, which is the last full 
> backup date?
> 
> Thank you.
> 

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