Re: [Duplicity-talk] --archive-dir documentation in man page

[Kenneth Loafman]

Thanks, I'll see what I can do to better explain the issue.

...Ken

address@hidden wrote:
> The man page discusses the --archive-dir option twice:
> 
>> *--archive-dir */path/
>>     When restoring, specify the local archive directory. This option
>>     is not necessary, but if hash data is found locally in /path/ it
>>     will be checked against remote files.
>>
> 
> and
> 
>> To save bandwidth, duplicity generates full signature sets and
>> incremental signature sets. A full signature set is generated for each
>> full backup, and an incremental one for each incremental backup. These
>> start with *duplicity-full-signatures* and *duplicity-new-signatures*
>> respectively. If *--archive-dir* is used, these signatures will be
>> stored locally only, which further saves bandwidth.
> 
> The second paragraph implies that the option is used for storing as well
> as restoring.  This should be explained better in the first paragraph. 
> I'd write a proposed correction myself, but I only just started playing
> with this option and don't pretend to understand it well.
> 
> Bob
> 
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