Re: [Duplicity-talk] Backup problems 0.6.17

[edgar . soldin]

On 08.01.2012 22:03, Ken Bass wrote:
> I've got an rdiff-backup from Windows to Linux for my Desktop and My 
> Documents folder.
> 
> I am basically using duplicity to backup the rdiff-backup results to an 
> offline site.
> 
> My "Desktop" folder is rather large (over 1G).
> 
> The problem is that duplicity did the initial full backup two nights ago. 
> After it completed, I waited a few hours and ran everything manually, and saw 
> that a small incremental was created since nothing had changed. When I got up 
> this morning, all 1G was re-uploaded. Why in the world is duplicity uploading 
> things that have not changed? It only did this for my Desktop, no other 
> folders. Just as a sample I used the restore option to grab the original 
> backup and last nights large incremental. When I compared a few files they 
> were identical.  What in the world would cause this and how would I go about 
> find out why?
> 
> To avoid the wasted money and bandwidth, I have reduced the size of my 
> backup, blew away my backup, and am starting over.
> 
> I don't have the archive anymore, but I do have a verbose level 5 log.
> 

files are also backed up on timestamp changes.. please compare those too. 
duplicity backing up unnecessary because some software touched files is a known 
issue.

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