Re: [Duplicity-talk] Need for more details on which incremental backup is restored

[Chris Poole]

That seems pointless though, as the default restoration is that of the latest 
backup, be it full or incremental.

On 5 Nov 2011, at 14:14, Olivier Berger <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> When restoring, duplicity only mentions which full backup is last, and
> so supposedly being restored.
> 
> For instance, it says :
> 
> $ duplicity file:///home/olivier/backups ~/tmp/restore/
> Local and Remote metadata are synchronized, no sync needed.
> Last full backup date: Sat Nov  5 15:04:39 2011
> GnuPG passphrase: xxxxxxxx
> 
> even though it has (hopefully) restored the state of this full's latest
> increments.
> 
> In my case, there's :
> 
> $ duplicity collection-status file:///home/olivier/backups 
> Local and Remote metadata are synchronized, no sync needed.
> Last full backup date: Sat Nov  5 15:04:39 2011
> Collection Status
> -----------------
> Connecting with backend: LocalBackend
> Archive dir: /home/olivier/.cache/duplicity/f6a74e4d9c83bb62b2a7ad6b17424384
> 
> Found 0 secondary backup chains.
> 
> Found primary backup chain with matching signature chain:
> -------------------------
> Chain start time: Sat Nov  5 15:04:39 2011
> Chain end time: Sat Nov  5 15:06:16 2011
> Number of contained backup sets: 3
> Total number of contained volumes: 4
> Type of backup set:                            Time:      Num volumes:
>                Full         Sat Nov  5 15:04:39 2011                 2
>         Incremental         Sat Nov  5 15:05:39 2011                 1
>         Incremental         Sat Nov  5 15:06:16 2011                 1
> -------------------------
> No orphaned or incomplete backup sets found.
> 
> 
> So I would expect something like :
> $ duplicity file:///home/olivier/backups ~/tmp/restore/
> Local and Remote metadata are synchronized, no sync needed.
> Last full backup date: Sat Nov  5 15:04:39 2011
> *Restoring from latest incremental Sat Nov  5 15:06:16 2011*
> GnuPG passphrase: xxxxxxxx
> 
> What do you think ?
> 
> Best regards,
> -- 
> Olivier BERGER 
> http://www-public.it-sudparis.eu/~berger_o/ - OpenPGP-Id: 2048R/5819D7E8
> Ingenieur Recherche - Dept INF
> Institut TELECOM, SudParis (http://www.it-sudparis.eu/), Evry (France)
> 
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