Re: [Duplicity-talk] How to prevent .cache from filling up root partition?

[Philipp Defner]

That’s correct, I’m using this line in my duply `conf` file and it works as 
expected.

    ARCH_DIR=/home/backup/.duply-cache

Best,

Philipp

> On 29 Sep 2015, at 08:27, Cláudio Gil <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> There is an --archive-dir option that controls where duplicity stores the 
> cache files. Check duplicity's man page to see how it relates with --name.
> 
> I think duply passes those options to duplicity but I'm not familiar with 
> duply.
> 
> Cheers,
> Cláudio
> 
> Em 29/09/2015 04:07, "Scott Classen" <address@hidden> escreveu:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm having problems getting duply to perform the initial full backup to 
> Amazon S3
> 
> My source directory is ~4TB
> 
> These are the versions of everything I'm running:
> 
> duply version 1.10.1
> Using installed duplicity version 0.7.05, python 2.6.6, gpg 2.0.14 (Home: 
> ~/.gnupg), awk 'GNU Awk 3.1.7', grep 'grep (GNU grep) 2.20', bash 
> '4.1.2(1)-release (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu)'.
> 
> 
> I think the main problem is that duply/duplicity is writing a ton of stuff to 
> .cache which is filling up the root partition and crashing the computer. I've 
> set TEMP_DIR=/home-old/duplicity which has a large partition (~2TB available 
> space) that I can use for temporary files. Is there any way to get .cache to 
> use TEMP_DIR?
> 
> 
> Here is the --preview output:
> 
> # duply home backup --preview
> Start duply v1.10.1, time is 2015-09-28 16:33:13.
> Using profile '/etc/duply/home'.
> Using installed duplicity version 0.7.05, python 2.6.6, gpg 2.0.14 (Home: 
> ~/.gnupg), awk 'GNU Awk 3.1.7', grep 'grep (GNU grep) 2.20', bash 
> '4.1.2(1)-release (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu)'.
> Autoset found secret key of first GPG_KEY entry '' for signing.
> -- Run cmd -- Checking TEMP_DIR '/home-old/duplicity' is a folder --
> test -d /home-old/duplicity 2>&1
> -- Run cmd -- Checking TEMP_DIR '/home-old/duplicity' is writable --
> test -w /home-old/duplicity 2>&1
> -- Run cmd -- Test - Encrypt to '' & Sign with '' --
> echo xxxxx | gpg --sign --default-key --passphrase-fd 0 --batch -r 
> --status-fd 1 -o /home-old/duplicity/duply.32699.1443483193_ENC -e 
> /usr/bin/duply 2>&1
> -- Run cmd -- Test - Decrypt --
> echo stan_ley123 | gpg --passphrase-fd 0 --batch -o 
> /home-old/duplicity/duply.32699.1443483193_DEC -d 
> /home-old/duplicity/duply.32699.1443483193_ENC 2>&1
> -- Run cmd -- Test - Compare --
> test "$(cat '/usr/bin/duply')" = "$(cat 
> '/home-old/duplicity/duply.32699.1443483193_DEC')" 2>&1
> Cleanup - Delete '/home-old/duplicity/duply.32699.1443483193_*'(FAILED)
> 
> --- Start running command PRE at 16:33:13.421 ---
> . /etc/duply/home/pre
> --- Finished state OK at 16:33:13.450 - Runtime 00:00:00.029 ---
> 
> --- Start running command BKP at 16:33:13.475 ---
> TMPDIR='/home-old/duplicity' PASSPHRASE=xxxxxxxx FTP_PASSWORD='xxxxxxxxxxxxx' 
> duplicity --name duply_home --encrypt-key xxxxxx --sign-key xxxxx --verbosity 
> '4' --s3-use-rrs --exclude-filelist '/etc/duply/home/exclude' '/home' 
> 's3://address@hidden/xxxxxxxxxx'
> --- Finished state OK at 16:33:13.561 - Runtime 00:00:00.086 ---
> 
> --- Start running command POST at 16:33:13.587 ---
> . /etc/duply/home/post
> --- Finished state OK at 16:33:13.617 - Runtime 00:00:00.030 ---
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Scott
> 
> 
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