Re: [Duplicity-talk] (Option to) Cache retrieved volumes between (fetching/restoring) runs locally?!

[edgar . soldin]

It would be much easier to simply mirror you repository to a local path and 
restore from there. 

Can't you just fetch/restore all files/folders in one go?

..ede/duply.net

On 09.11.2010 21:53, Daniel Hahler wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I would like to be able to cache retrieved files from the backend
> locally between multiple runs of duplicity, e.g. via some config or
> command line option.
> 
> Use case: having accidentally overwritten a lot of my (virtual)
> containers files, I've used the following to restore the previous state:
>   for i in $=VCIDS; do
>     b=path/to/files
>     /bin/rm -rf /$b*
>     duply profile fetch $b /$b 1D
>     duply profile fetch ${b}.d /${b}.d 1D
>   done
> 
> This makes up 60+ runs of duplicity (2 runs of duplicity per 30+
> containers, one for a single file, the other for a directory), and when
> looking at it with "--verbosity 9" it looks like a lot of the same
> volumes (with a size of 50M in my case) are downloaded every time.
> 
> I think it would speed this (particular) use case dramatically up, if
> these files would get cached locally.
> 
> I could imagine to configure something like "keep files for X hours",
> and when duplicity gets run and files are older than this, they get
> cleaned on shutdown.
> When being accessed, they would get touched to reset the timer.
> 
> However, there should also be a maximum number of files to cache, since
> this might easily fill your local volume otherwise.
> 
> I am thinking about caching the files encrypted (just as on the remote
> site), but maybe caching decrypted files would make sense, too?
> 
> Obviously, this should take into account if this is a remote backup
> (maybe by looking at the transfer rate of the files?!), and not pollute
> the cache, if the backend is as fast as local transfers might be.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Daniel

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