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Re: [Duplicity-talk] Question on dealing with Archives


From: Jeffrey
Subject: Re: [Duplicity-talk] Question on dealing with Archives
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 13:16:28 -0400

Thanks Aaron, 

I'm sure you are right, I'm trying to bend Duplicity to my needs.  

"Alternatively, if you are just wanting a full backup that you can easily extract, is there a reason not to just do a compressed archive (e.g. a tar.gz)?" 

-is there a way to set Duplicity to create and upload to S3 a simple compressed archive like a tar.gz?   My apologies if I'm missing the obvious.  

My goal is to keep things simple to deal with in the event of a problem. For example I often travel and it would love it if I could use any available device to log in to my S3 account and get usable files with what's available on the computer at hand. I'd need just a browser and FTP to be back up and running. Could be Windows, Mac, Chromebook or even a smartphone.  

Jeff

On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 12:11 PM, Aaron <address@hidden> wrote:

Hello Jeffrey,

On 2017-06-07 16:46, Jeffrey via Duplicity-talk wrote:

I'm using Duplicity to periodically load unencrypted full backups to my Amazon s3 account. Works great, except I'd love to be able to download those archives and extract them myself.  At the moment, when I download the  duplicity-full.************.diftar.gz I get another archive .difftar that will not properly extract.  
 
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I'm backing up small websites, and I'm looking for an fast & easy way to restore them in a worse case scenario where the server blows up.  I can get a new VPS with wordpress setup in seconds then load up the site files using ftp.  

It is not directly answering your question, but it sounds as though you are fighting duplicity a bit instead of using it.

Any reason that you cannot backup to a different subfolder on Amazon for each website that you back up and then use duplicity (essentially the inverse of your backup command) to extract the files if you need them? You should not really be manually extracting archive files unless duplicity cannot do it for you. You can use duplicity to extract the archive files even if you have moved them (say off Amazon onto a folder on your local machine).

Alternatively, if you are just wanting a full backup that you can easily extract, is there a reason not to just do a compressed archive (e.g. a tar.gz)?

Kind regards,

Aaron


 





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