Re: [Duplicity-talk] how to use verify command?

[Raphael Bauduin]

Hi,

checksum verification is sufficient for me, thanks for the clarification.

raphaël

On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 11:20 AM, edgar.soldin--- via Duplicity-talk <address@hidden> wrote:

Raph,

the manpage seems to be out of date on verify. verify nowadays only restores to a temp path and checks if the result matches the checksum saved during backup.

if you really want to compare you will need to add the --compare-data parameter.

to restrict comparision to a folder/file you will need to add the --file-to-restore parameter.

something like
  duplicity verify --compare-data --file-to-restore /etc/hostname file://backups/duplicity /
assuming that '/' the fs root was your initial backup source on the other machine.

..ede/duply.net


On 27.03.2017 07:55, Raphael Bauduin via Duplicity-talk wrote:
> But my example should have raised an error, no? The file /etc/hostname on the host I run the verify command is different from that file in the backup. I thought it would at least find one different.
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> Raphaël
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> On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 4:37 PM, Kenneth Loafman <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
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>     duplicity does not check hostname unless you are backing up, so every command except 'full' and 'inc' should work without error.
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>     ...Ken
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>     On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 7:46 AM, Raphael Bauduin via Duplicity-talk <address@hidden <mailto:address@hiddenorg>> wrote:
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>         Hi,
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>         I'm testing the 'duplicity verify' command, and get confusing results...
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>         I'm running the command on a server which is not the server from which the data is backed-up. I'm doing:
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>         duplicity verify file://backups/duplicity /etc/hostname
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>         The hostname is different, so I would expect to get an error, but exit status is 0 and output is:
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>         Local and Remote metadata are synchronized, no sync needed.
>         Last full backup date: Thu Mar 16 14:55:54 2017
>         GnuPG passphrase:
>         Verify complete: 17936 files compared, 0 differences found.
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>         Did I misunderstand something here?
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>         Thanks
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>         Raphaël
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