Re: [Duplicity-talk] Duplicity - What's Next?

[Gabriel Ambuehl]

On Wednesday 03 October 2007 09:03:22 Ian Barton wrote:
> I would like to add a further suggestion. The last time I looked at the
> internals of duplicity, when you restored a file it first had to
> download an index file from the remote. If you have a backup with many
> small files, this index file can be very large.
>
> Would it be possible to cache this locally and use some sort of checksum
> to see if it had to be downloaded again.

Isn't this what --archive-dir is good for? At the very least, --archive-dir 
works for not downloading signatures when you do incremental backups.

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