[Duplicity-talk] Why aren't my old backup sets being deleted?

[Joe Auty]

Hello,

I'm trying to turn over a ton of old incremental backups, so I did a new full backup which just completed yesterday, but old backups are not being deleted with the following Duplicity arguments:

duplicity remove-older-than 3M --force --tempdir ${TEMPDIR} --archive-dir ${ARCHIVEDIR} ${DEST}
                                                                      
duplicity --full-if-older-than 3M --tempdir ${TEMPDIR} --archive-dir ${ARCHIVEDIR} --gpg-options "--compress-algo=bzip2 --bzip2-compress-level=9" --asynchronous-upload --encrypt-key=${GPG_KEY} --sign-key=${GPG_KEY} --s3-use-rrs --s3-use-new-style ${SOURCE} ${DEST}     

I'm getting the following, which I can't make sense of since Duplicity seems to recognize my new full backup I made yesterday according to this output, if this is to be taken at face value... How can I delete these old sets, and why is this happening? I've tried a:

duplicity cleanup --extra-clean --tempdir ${TEMPDIR} --archive-dir ${ARCHIVEDIR} --force ${DEST}  

Which did not help. Here is my output for the remove-older-than command which I can't make sense of:


Local and Remote metadata are synchronized, no sync needed.
Last full backup date: Sat Sep 15 03:14:57 2012
There are backup set(s) at time(s):
Wed Aug  3 03:31:17 2011
Thu Aug  4 20:09:12 2011
Thu Aug  4 22:46:59 2011
Fri Aug  5 01:34:00 2011
Sun Aug  7 02:15:07 2011
Sun Sep  4 02:15:04 2011
Sun Sep 11 02:15:06 2011
Sun Sep 18 02:15:24 2011
Sun Sep 25 02:15:04 2011
Sun Oct  2 02:15:06 2011
Sun Oct  9 02:15:04 2011
Sun Oct 30 02:15:05 2011
Sun Nov  6 02:15:07 2011
Sun Nov 13 18:18:32 2011
Sun Nov 20 02:15:12 2011
Sun Nov 27 02:15:09 2011
Sun Dec  4 02:15:10 2011
Sun Dec 11 02:15:10 2011
Sun Dec 18 02:15:10 2011
Sun Dec 25 02:15:11 2011
Sun Jan  1 02:15:13 2012
Sun Jan  8 02:15:10 2012
Sun Jan 15 02:15:12 2012
Sun Jan 22 02:15:11 2012
Sun Jan 29 02:15:09 2012
Sun Feb  5 02:15:10 2012
Sun Feb 12 02:15:12 2012
Sun Feb 19 02:15:10 2012
Sun Feb 26 02:15:09 2012
Sun Mar  4 02:15:11 2012
Sun Mar 11 03:00:11 2012
Sun Mar 18 02:15:50 2012
Sun Mar 25 02:15:15 2012
Sun Apr  1 02:15:10 2012
Sun Apr  8 02:15:11 2012
Sun Apr 15 02:15:10 2012
Sun Apr 22 02:15:11 2012
Sun Apr 29 02:15:11 2012
Sun May  6 02:15:31 2012
Sun May 13 02:15:11 2012
Sun May 20 02:15:10 2012
Fri May 25 02:15:13 2012
Sat May 26 02:15:09 2012
Sun May 27 02:15:09 2012
Mon May 28 02:15:10 2012
Tue May 29 02:15:11 2012
Wed May 30 02:15:13 2012
Thu May 31 02:15:11 2012
Fri Jun  1 02:15:09 2012
Sat Jun  2 02:15:10 2012
Sun Jun  3 02:15:08 2012
Mon Jun  4 02:15:12 2012
Tue Jun  5 02:15:17 2012
Wed Jun  6 02:15:27 2012
Thu Jun  7 02:15:18 2012
Fri Jun  8 02:15:34 2012
Sat Jun  9 02:15:13 2012
Sun Jun 10 02:15:11 2012
Mon Jun 11 02:15:11 2012
Tue Jun 12 02:15:13 2012
Wed Jun 13 02:15:15 2012
Thu Jun 14 02:15:15 2012
Fri Jun 15 02:15:13 2012
Sat Jun 16 02:15:14 2012
Mon Jun 18 02:15:16 2012
Which can't be deleted because newer sets depend on them.
No old backup sets found, nothing deleted.

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