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

[Fazekas László]

yes, this is my collection status:

duplicity collection-status s3://...
Local and Remote metadata are synchronized, no sync needed.
Last full backup date: Wed Mar  1 23:43:34 2017
Collection Status
-----------------
Connecting with backend: BackendWrapper
Archive dir: /root/.cache/duplicity/15cdc29d7e7bb895d21ee48765caa257

Found 3 secondary backup chains.
Secondary chain 1 of 3:
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Chain start time: Tue Feb  7 22:05:24 2017
Chain end time: Mon Feb 13 23:18:53 2017
Number of contained backup sets: 10
Total number of contained volumes: 11
 Type of backup set:                            Time:      Num volumes:
                Full         Tue Feb  7 22:05:24 2017                 2
         Incremental         Tue Feb  7 23:25:25 2017                 1
         Incremental         Wed Feb  8 00:19:05 2017                 1
         Incremental         Wed Feb  8 23:18:59 2017                 1
         Incremental         Thu Feb  9 22:18:45 2017                 1
         Incremental         Thu Feb  9 23:18:32 2017                 1
         Incremental         Fri Feb 10 23:18:28 2017                 1
         Incremental         Sat Feb 11 23:18:45 2017                 1
         Incremental         Sun Feb 12 23:18:50 2017                 1
         Incremental         Mon Feb 13 23:18:53 2017                 1
-------------------------

Secondary chain 2 of 3:
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Chain start time: Tue Feb 14 23:18:46 2017
Chain end time: Mon Feb 20 23:42:33 2017
Number of contained backup sets: 7
Total number of contained volumes: 8
 Type of backup set:                            Time:      Num volumes:
                Full         Tue Feb 14 23:18:46 2017                 2
         Incremental         Wed Feb 15 23:18:51 2017                 1
         Incremental         Thu Feb 16 23:18:51 2017                 1
         Incremental         Fri Feb 17 23:18:47 2017                 1
         Incremental         Sat Feb 18 22:46:32 2017                 1
         Incremental         Sun Feb 19 23:40:43 2017                 1
         Incremental         Mon Feb 20 23:42:33 2017                 1
-------------------------

Secondary chain 3 of 3:
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Chain start time: Tue Feb 21 23:43:20 2017
Chain end time: Tue Feb 28 23:43:06 2017
Number of contained backup sets: 8
Total number of contained volumes: 9
 Type of backup set:                            Time:      Num volumes:
                Full         Tue Feb 21 23:43:20 2017                 2
         Incremental         Wed Feb 22 23:42:25 2017                 1
         Incremental         Thu Feb 23 23:45:26 2017                 1
         Incremental         Fri Feb 24 23:46:46 2017                 1
         Incremental         Sun Feb 26 00:12:38 2017                 1
         Incremental         Sun Feb 26 23:40:43 2017                 1
         Incremental         Mon Feb 27 23:43:57 2017                 1
         Incremental         Tue Feb 28 23:43:06 2017                 1
-------------------------


Found primary backup chain with matching signature chain:
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Chain start time: Wed Mar  1 23:43:34 2017
Chain end time: Mon Mar  6 23:45:12 2017
Number of contained backup sets: 6
Total number of contained volumes: 7
 Type of backup set:                            Time:      Num volumes:
                Full         Wed Mar  1 23:43:34 2017                 2
         Incremental         Thu Mar  2 23:44:23 2017                 1
         Incremental         Fri Mar  3 23:44:07 2017                 1
         Incremental         Sat Mar  4 23:40:06 2017                 1
         Incremental         Sun Mar  5 23:34:41 2017                 1
         Incremental         Mon Mar  6 23:45:12 2017                 1
-------------------------
No orphaned or incomplete backup sets found.

2017-03-07 14:31 keltezéssel, edgar.soldin--- via Duplicity-talk írta:
> 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.
> can you send a collection-status? ..ede/duply.net
>
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