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Re: [Duplicity-talk] Duplicity is push/pull backup?
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edgar . soldin |
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Re: [Duplicity-talk] Duplicity is push/pull backup? |
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Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:19:56 +0200 |
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On 05.08.2011 15:21, pradyumna dash wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am facing some issues while restoring files. Can any one give me an exact
> syntax, and explain a bit.
did you consult the man page?
http://duplicity.nongnu.org/duplicity.1.html
> E.g : I want to restore the /etc/hosts file, i have taken the backup of /etc
> but want to restore hosts file
this one is a bit unintuitive that's true
duplicity --file-to-restore /etc/hosts [options] source_url /etc/hosts.backup
> Another question i have is when am taking the backup the backup is stored as
> "duplicity-full-date.....gpg", what i would like to do is, as i have many
> servers, can i rename those files to my hostname by duplicity command line or
> by a script ? If answer is yes then please share the command/script would be
> a great help.
there is no way to achieve that as far as i know. But.. you might want to put
all backups of one host in a folder named like that host?
..ede/duply.net
>
> Please am newbie to duplicity, help me.
>
> Regards,
> Neo
>
> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 3:53 PM, pradyumna dash <address@hidden
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>
> Thanks Guys for the quick answer. Much appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Pradyumna
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Chris Poole <address@hidden
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>
> 2011/8/2 pradyumna dash <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>>:
>
> > I would like to know whether duplicity is push backup or pull
> backup, I
> > would like to have a design where the backup server fetch the data
> from the
> > servers,
>
> Duplicity does all of its processing on the client side, and then
> pushes these
> files to the backup location. The backup location is assumed to be
> dumb; that
> is, we can read, write and delete files, but not really anything
> else. No trust
> is put in the backup location, in the sense that all encryption and
> signing
> operations are done on the client side, before sending to the backup.
>
> > does the backup retain file attributes as original file, hard
> > links,permissions,ownership etc.
>
> From the Duplicity home page:
>
> > Currently duplicity supports deleted files, full unix permissions,
> > directories, and symbolic links, fifos, and device files, but not
> hard links.
>
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Cheers
>
>
> Chris Poole
> [PGP BAD246F9]
>
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