Re: [Duplicity-talk] Having to specify incrementals

[edgar . soldin]

On 29.03.2013 19:35, Elvar wrote:
> 
> On 3/29/2013 11:49 AM, address@hidden wrote:
>> On 29.03.2013 17:31, Elvar wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I recently started using Duplicity to perform offsite backups for a linux 
>>> server of ours. When I performed  a simulated disaster recovery scenario I 
>>> found that the only data I had been able restore was data from the initial 
>>> full backup. It doesn't appear that Duplicity was automatically doing 
>>> incrementals despite the data growing. Below is the command I'm using...
>>>
>>> FTP_PASSWORD='somepass' PASSPHRASE='somepass' duplicity /mnt 
>>> ftps://address@hidden
>>>
>>> Shouldn't that automatically assume incrementals if the full had already 
>>> been done?
>>>
>> yes. what's the output of collection-status?
>>
>> ..ede/duply.net
> 
> After having manually ran an incremental or two, here is the current status.
> 
> Import of duplicity.backends.giobackend Failed: No module named gio
> Import of duplicity.backends.sshbackend Failed: No module named paramiko
> LFTP version is 4.3.3
> Local and Remote metadata are synchronized, no sync needed.
> Last full backup date: Thu Mar 28 17:03:26 2013
> Collection Status
> -----------------
> Connecting with backend: FTPSBackend
> Archive dir: /root/.cache/duplicity/cb471964ea71f51bdbff729d2a8e763e
> 
> Found 0 secondary backup chains.
> 
> Found primary backup chain with matching signature chain:
> -------------------------
> Chain start time: Thu Mar 28 17:03:26 2013
> Chain end time: Fri Mar 29 11:23:11 2013
> Number of contained backup sets: 6
> Total number of contained volumes: 61
>  Type of backup set:                            Time:      Num volumes:
>                 Full         Thu Mar 28 17:03:26 2013 50
>          Incremental         Thu Mar 28 19:24:47 2013                 1
>          Incremental         Fri Mar 29 09:23:59 2013                 1
>          Incremental         Fri Mar 29 09:33:08 2013                 1
>          Incremental         Fri Mar 29 10:12:58 2013                 1
>          Incremental         Fri Mar 29 11:23:11 2013                 7
> -------------------------
> No orphaned or incomplete backup sets found.
> 

dunno what your complaining about. it clearly states

1 x full
5 x incrementals

run again without forced incremental and see if it adds full or incr.

..ede