Re: [Duplicity-talk] Old signatures not removed by remove-*

[Kenneth Loafman]

Ed Blackman wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:39:01AM -0600, Kenneth Loafman wrote:
>> Ed Blackman wrote:
>>> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 09:33:04AM -0600, Kenneth Loafman wrote:
>>>> "duplicity cleanup --extra-clean --force" will do the trick.
>>>
>>> When I ran that without --force, it listed signature files associated
>>> with current backups, so I was hesitant to use that solution.
>>
>> There is only one current backup, the last one, did it list those?
> 
> OK, bad terminology on my part.  It doesn't list the ones from the
> current backup, but it does list them for older backup chains that
> haven't (yet) been removed by remove-all-but-n-full.
> 
> Do I not need them to restore from an older backup?

No, signature files are only needed for incremental backup.  Once you've
made a full backup, any previous signature files can be removed.

...Ken

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