Re: [Duplicity-talk] Anyone using duplicity with box.net (webdavs)?

[edgar . soldin]

On 29.02.2012 17:05, Ken Bass wrote:
> On 2/29/2012 10:35 AM, address@hidden wrote:
>>
>> disagreed, these are fully fledged fuse based filesystems, which can easily 
>> be set up today and used via file:// backend already.
>>
>> the guy who found the solution for box.net claims that it chokes 
>> on<D:allprop/>  .. if that's the case we could easily set up a 
>> --webdav-options switch that allows switching it off.
>> on the other hand, we currently don't need it anyway (maybe for the enhanced 
>> upload plausability) but as far as i can see is<D:allprop/>  not really 
>> necessary as servers should at least return the list of files (urls) and 
>> more properties at will, if no<D:allprop/>  was defined.
>>
>> shouldn't we try the route without<D:allprop/>  first?
>>
> 
> Not sure if it is related to the allprop thing, but when I tried using davfs 
> to mount box.net (webdavs) as a filesystem, the problem was that
> even though a file would be uploaded, it would either disappear from the 
> filesystem or show a size of zero. I think there was some sort of lag
> between the file being committed to the server and showing up on the local 
> davfs mounted filesystem. If I recall that caused duplicity to fail because 
> it would query the file it just uploaded and either the size would be 
> returned incorrectly or the file would appear missing.

yeah we have added such a check lately, maybe we should have a switch to 
disable it for corner cases like these.
@mt: what do you think? btw. sorry, haven't gotten around to implement it 
further so far ;( but i am still aware :)

..ede