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From: | Russell Clemings |
Subject: | Re: [Duplicity-talk] duplicity overwrites on restores .. Re: Duplicity wiped out my server |
Date: | Wed, 6 May 2015 07:22:00 -0700 |
On 06.05.2015 14:09, Scott Hannahs wrote:
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> On May 6, 2015, at 05:07, address@hidden wrote:
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>> On 06.05.2015 10:27, address@hidden wrote:
>>> OK folks, this software is truly DANGEROUS. The command line is incredibly obscure and counter-intuitive, …<Rant>
>>> even big corporations, still simply make fucking tar archives.
>>>
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>> 1. work on your manners, please.
>> 2. use duply, if the command lines are too complex for you.
>> 3. and most importantly, as a feature duplicity does not delete or overwrite anything on your local filesystem during a restore. it will complain that the tatget exists and fail. that's why you always have to restore to a temp location and mv it manually from there.
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>> regards.. ede/duply.net
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> A remarkably good response! Thank you.
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thanks.. because i try to give the benefit of the doubt to everybody i quickly doublechecked the 'duplicity overwrites' statement. for a file restore using --file-to-restore . the somewhat surprising results were
A. object to restore is a file, target is an existing file
'Restore destination directory tmp/test already exists.
Will not overwrite.'
although not specifically mentioned in the output _nor_ the manpage, using --force will overwrite it!
B. object to restore is a folder, target is an existing file
behaviour same as A. , although it fails as it does not replace the file with the folder. shows errors like
'Error '[Errno 20] Not a directory: 'tmp/test3/duply_/INSTALL.txt'' processing duply_/INSTALL.txt'
C. object to restore is a file, target is an existing folder (given w/o a trailing slash)
no warning, for empty folder
same as A., _note_ that a folder is replaced by a file here
D. object to restore is a folder, target is an existing folder (given w/o a trailing slash)
no warning, for empty folder
warning, overwritable via --force when folder contains files. result is a mix of old and restored content.
in conclusion, we should probably address that ;(
..ede/duply.net
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