[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: [Duplicity-talk] how to use verify command?
From: |
John Covici |
Subject: |
Re: [Duplicity-talk] how to use verify command? |
Date: |
Mon, 27 Mar 2017 06:41:26 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Wanderlust/2.15.9 (Almost Unreal) SEMI-EPG/1.14.7 (Harue) FLIM/1.14.9 (Gojō) APEL/10.8 EasyPG/1.0.0 Emacs/25.2 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) |
So, if I do an incremental backup, there is no verify command to just
verify the files I just backed up? Otherwise verify is not that
useful as it must verify everything.
On Mon, 27 Mar 2017 05:20:29 -0400,
edgar.soldin--- via Duplicity-talk wrote:
>
> Raph,
>
> the manpage seems to be out of date on verify. verify nowadays only restores
> to a temp path and checks if the result matches the checksum saved during
> backup.
>
> if you really want to compare you will need to add the --compare-data
> parameter.
>
> to restrict comparision to a folder/file you will need to add the
> --file-to-restore parameter.
>
> something like
> duplicity verify --compare-data --file-to-restore /etc/hostname
> file://backups/duplicity /
> assuming that '/' the fs root was your initial backup source on the other
> machine.
>
> ..ede/duply.net
>
>
> On 27.03.2017 07:55, Raphael Bauduin via Duplicity-talk wrote:
> > But my example should have raised an error, no? The file /etc/hostname on
> > the host I run the verify command is different from that file in the
> > backup. I thought it would at least find one different.
> >
> > Raphaël
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 4:37 PM, Kenneth Loafman <address@hidden
> > <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
> >
> > duplicity does not check hostname unless you are backing up, so every
> > command except 'full' and 'inc' should work without error.
> >
> > ...Ken
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 7:46 AM, Raphael Bauduin via Duplicity-talk
> > <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm testing the 'duplicity verify' command, and get confusing
> > results...
> >
> > I'm running the command on a server which is not the server from
> > which the data is backed-up. I'm doing:
> >
> > duplicity verify file://backups/duplicity /etc/hostname
> >
> > The hostname is different, so I would expect to get an error, but
> > exit status is 0 and output is:
> >
> > Local and Remote metadata are synchronized, no sync needed.
> > Last full backup date: Thu Mar 16 14:55:54 2017
> > GnuPG passphrase:
> > Verify complete: 17936 files compared, 0 differences found.
> >
> > Did I misunderstand something here?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Raphaël
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Duplicity-talk mailing list
> > address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>
> > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/duplicity-talk
> > <https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/duplicity-talk>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Web database: http://www.myowndb.com
> > Free Software Developers Meeting: http://www.fosdem.org
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Duplicity-talk mailing list
> > address@hidden
> > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/duplicity-talk
> >
>
> _______________________________________________
> Duplicity-talk mailing list
> address@hidden
> https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/duplicity-talk
>
--
Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is:
How do
you spend it?
John Covici
address@hidden