Re: [Duplicity-talk] Purging, purge-full, not working?

[edgar . soldin]

On 22.08.2014 14:07, Karl Buckland wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for your help so far.
> 
> The preview command shows that the the time argument does change. That would 
> indicate that the issue is with Duplicity instead?
> 
> Eg: 
> duply chronos purge --preview
> 
> TMPDIR='/tmp' PASSPHRASE='x' AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID='x' AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY='X' 
> duplicity remove-older-than 3M --name duply_chronos --verbosity '4' 
> --full-if-older-than 1M --volsize 250 's3://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/X/Y 
> <http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/X/Y>
> 
> duply chronos purge 30D --preview
> 
> TMPDIR='/tmp' PASSPHRASE='X' AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID='X' AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY='X' 
> duplicity remove-older-than 30D --name duply_chronos --verbosity '4' 
> --full-if-older-than 1M --volsize 250 's3://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/X/Y 
> <http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/X/Y>'
> 
> If I upgrade Duplicity, am I safe to use my existing backups? My assumption 
> would be 'no' and that I need to make fresh backups with the new Duplicity. 
> If that's the case, which isn't a problem, then my issue will have to go on 
> hold for a few days at least until I have a few days worth of backups to play 
> with the purge functions again.


duplicity data format hasn't changed for a long time. so no worries there.

wrt. your original issue. please update and see if the error persists. if so, 
let's dig in deeper.. ede/duply.net