Re: [Duplicity-talk] cannot remove older backup

[John Covici]

OK, thanks.

On Fri, 12 May 2017 10:58:43 -0400,
edgar.soldin--- via Duplicity-talk wrote:
> 
> check --archive-dir, --name descriptions in the manpage
>   http://duplicity.nongnu.org/duplicity.1.html
> 
> generally there is no need to set it. if you do make sure that the same name 
> or archive dir is not used for different targets (backends, backend 
> folders/containers) .
> 
> so, yes - change the name as well or better, simply don't give it.
> 
> ..ede/duply.net
> 
> 
> On 12.05.2017 16:54, John Covici wrote:
> > By name I mean the  --name parameter on the duplicity command line.
> > 
> > On Fri, 12 May 2017 10:43:50 -0400,
> > edgar.soldin--- via Duplicity-talk wrote:
> >>
> >> if your cloud backend has no folders, but containers, well then containers 
> >> ;)
> >>
> >> what do you mean by name? ..ede
> >>
> >>
> >> On 12.05.2017 16:37, John Covici wrote:
> >>> By new folder, do you mean a new azure storage container, or a new
> >>> name for my backups or both?
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, 12 May 2017 10:21:54 -0400,
> >>> edgar.soldin--- via Duplicity-talk wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> On 12.05.2017 16:09, John Covici wrote:
> >>>>> So, that sort of worked -- it removed things from the back end, but
> >>>>> there seems to be a few files in the directory, but they are of no
> >>>>> matter I suppose, the chains are definitely gone.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> In future if I need to do another full backup using par2, do I need to
> >>>>> do it under a separate name?  If I do that will the remove older than
> >>>>> work?
> >>>>
> >>>> as you found out duplicity does not like the par2 files unless it uses 
> >>>> the par2 wrapper backend. unfortunately you ended up having chains w/ 
> >>>> and w/o par2 files mixed in a folder. that's not something that was 
> >>>> anticipated during development stage, obviously.
> >>>>
> >>>> next time simply choose an alternate target location (folder) when you 
> >>>> start using par2 wrapper or do other major changes (like using a new 
> >>>> duplicity version) eg.
> >>>>
> >>>> duplicity full /src file://backup
> >>>>
> >>>>  instead of
> >>>>
> >>>> duplicity full /src par2+file://backupWithPar2
> >>>>
> >>>> ..ede/duply.net
> >>>>
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