I recently installed the latest version of duplicity and boto on Ubuntu 8.04LTS. I ran a full backup for a directory containing all my family photos and it was uploaded to Amazon S3. Everything seems fine as depicted by the output below;
When I do a 'duplicity list-current-files' the output appears to be what I'd expect. Everything's okay there...
Something I noticed kinda odd though is if I run the backup again, it does an incremental, but the file size is only 1k... and I know 100% without a doubt absolutely nothing has actually changed... (its purely folders with photos in them, thats all thats being backed up) So why is it doing an incremental at all? I'd like to do backups nightly but if nothing has changed I don't see the point of generating un-needed files and bandwidth... (i know its next to nothing, but still...)
Also, something that is concerning is if I do a 'duplicity verify -v4' I get the following;
Last full backup date: Mon Mar 23 13:27:46 2009 Difference found: File . has permissions 755, expected 755
Difference found: New file 2005 Difference found: New file 2005/08-11-05_1137.jpg Difference found: New file 2005/08-12-05_1217.jpg Difference found: New file 2005/08-12-05_1218.jpg Difference found: New file 2005/08-31-05_1923.jpg
Difference found: New file 2005/10-22-05_1022.jpg Difference found: File var/www/web2/g2data/albums/2005/DSC00711.JPG is missing Difference found: File var/www/web2/g2data/albums/2005/DSC00803.JPG is missing Difference found: File var/www/web2/g2data/albums/2005/DSC01588.JPG is missing
The list it outputs is HUGE, and I know by comparing it to the 'list-current-files' output that something is wrong here... Can someone explain to me why this is?
Thanks in advance.
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