[Duplicity-talk] Deleting large files from archive?

[David Schneider-Joseph]

Hi all,

I don't see an obvious solution to this problem -- was wondering if  
you guys did.

Suppose I have a 1 GB file, and it gets backed up, then I delete it  
locally.  Obviously, its snapshot is still taking up space on the  
destination side.  Suppose I decide I will absolutely never want this  
file, and want to free the space that the backup for this one file  
will take up?  Is there a way to do this while also preserving the  
remainder of the incremental snapshots?

Presumably this is technically feasible, as the --remove-older-than  
option manages to selectively delete only those files that are no  
longer referenced, but it seems that duplicity does not currently  
support this.  How would I go about doing this with the underlying  
rdiff tools?

Thanks,
David