Re: [Duplicity-talk] --list-current-files suggestions

[Ben Escoto]

>>>>> "HS" == Helmut Schneider <address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote the following on 31 Jan 2003 11:56:16 +0100

  HS> -It would be nice to write the list of current files in a file
  HS> instead of stdout.Especially when you have to type your password
  HS> interactively you cannot pipe stdout well.

You could supply the password through the PASSPHRASE environment
variable.

  HS> -Very helpful would be not only a list of files also the version
  HS> dates of files in the archive.  Otherwise it is very hard to
  HS> restore an deleted file which deletion time you dont remember.

Yes, true.  The problem is that right now the only record of old files
in the archive is in the archive itself, so getting a list of files at
a certain time involves downloading everything.  I suppose some sort
of digest file could be written for each session, but that would take
up space, and listing the versions of a single file would still
require downloading many of these digests.  I'll have to decide
sometime what the right way to handle this is.

  HS> -After all this an option --filelist-to-restore "file" would be
  HS> nice.  So you can write out the current files to a file, edit
  HS> with emacs and restore!

Yep, probably the best would be if the include/exclude options worked
when restoring.  (I assume they don't know, but I actually don't know
for sure.

  HS> following patch prints the latest version time of files but
  HS> doesnt help for deleted files (time=0)

Ok, thanks, I altered your patch slightly and applied it to CVS.


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Ben Escoto

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