Re: [Duplicity-talk] Find old file in backup set

[Ben Escoto]

>>>>> "PE" == Peter Ehrenberg <address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote the following on 04 May 2003 20:52:49 +0200

  >> [...] What probably needs to be done is store a table with all
  >> the files indexed by both name and backup time. At each session
  >> that file could be downloaded, modified, encrypted, and
  >> reuploaded...

  PE> Instead why can't duplicity simply reverse scan the manifest
  PE> files until find the requested file?

The manifest file just lists contains volume information.  You can
decrypt one and view it as a text file yourself.  For each volume it
lists the starting filename, the ending filename, and the checksum.
So when you restore file(s), duplicity can avoid downloading
unnecessary volumes, and can check the integrity of each.  So it is a
volume manifest, not a file manifest.


-- 
Ben Escoto

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