Re: [Duplicity-talk] Backup not restorable with no compression?

[Knut Krause]

OK, I'd have to dig into that. Maybe I will. Until then it would be at least 
great if the option is disabled. This is just 1 minute work for the devs and 
it would prevent duplicity from creating a backup it cannot restore any more.

Knut

Am Montag, 27. Januar 2014, 17:39:18 schrieb address@hidden:
> good to know! maybe some warm heart comes around and does just that. the
> reason that no compression isn't fixed is simply - no one cares enough for
> this option, obviously.
> 
> speaking of "you guys should". how about you dig in and supply a patch?
> python is not brain surgery ;)
> 
> the lesson for you should be. don't trust, verify! while duplicity is quite
> robust, it still has nooks and corners. just now, 0.6.23 fixed a bug that
> resulted in data loss when a backup was resumed.
> 
> all this can be easily circumvented by periodically verifying your backups.
> 
> ..ede/duply.net
> 
> On 27.01.2014 16:06, Knut Krause wrote:
> > Just for your information: renaming the *.difftar files to *.difftar.gz
> > seems to result in a working restore again.
> > 
> > You guys should really either remove or FIX the --no-compression option
> > though. This is behaviour is not acceptable for backup software.
> > 
> > 
> > Knut
> > 
> > Am Montag, 27. Januar 2014, 15:21:14 schrieb Knut Krause:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> I created a backup using --no-compression. The filenames are
> >> duplicity-inc.20140113T152430Z.to.20140123T112751Z.vol8.difftar
> >> without the .gz ending.
> >> 
> >> file on the other hand says:
> >> duplicity-inc.20140113T152430Z.to.20140123T112751Z.vol9.difftar:
> >> gzip compressed data, last modified: Thu Jan 23 13:16:42 2014, max
> >> compression
> >> 
> >> Now I found
> >> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/duplicity-talk/2013-03/msg00001.html
> >> and
> >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/duplicity/+bug/1029516
> >> which suggests that this option is buggy since 2012.
> >> 
> >> Any suggestions how to fix this? Can I just rename the files to *.gz or
> >> will this break the signature stuff?
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Knut
> >> 
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