Re: [Duplicity-talk] some question about orphaned and archive-dir

[Kenneth Loafman]

Bonvicini, Alessandro wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> everytime ,day after day that I run duplicity the list of orphaned
> new-signature file grows.
> 
> I don't understand why. The signature files ....gz are present on server
> and on client, and are the same dimension. I use the archive-dir option
> to speed up. What are "orphaned files"?
> 
> May you explain ?

See this bug report:  https://bugs.launchpad.net/duplicity/+bug/388992
I am looking at it now.

> Second question. At one point may I remove the archive-dir option and
> all the packages inc.*,manifest ,new* on client side without breaking
> anything?

No, a persistent cache is needed for checkpoint/restart, at least for
the next couple of versions.  I have a plan to work around this, but for
now, its a known limitation in the code.

...Thanks,
...Ken

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