Re: [Duplicity-talk] Restoring a file deleted before the latest incremental

[edgar . soldin]

On 23.08.2023 22:30, Thomas via Duplicity-talk wrote:
> On 2023-08-23 18:50, duplicity--- via Duplicity-talk wrote:
>
> > I am certain you won't be surprised, using the correct value in the --time 
> > OPTION fixed my problem. I was indeed able to restore a file prior to an empty 
> > set incremental, but better than that, I've incorporated the test command in 
> > crontab so that I no longer create empty backups.
> You may like the feature coming with 
> https://gitlab.com/duplicity/duplicity/-/merge_requests/151, 
> <https://gitlab.com/duplicity/duplicity/-/merge_requests/151,> then you will 
> have a command line parameter to behave like this.

probably not. your MR https://gitlab.com/duplicity/duplicity/-/merge_requests/151 skips 
the backup if nothing changed. the issue at hand was an empty mount point effectively 
looking to duplicity as if all data was deleted in between. hence "lots of 
changes" from that point of view even if erroneous.

sunny regards ..ede