Re: [Duplicity-talk] new strange behaviour without changes

[Kenneth Loafman]

Stefan Hoth wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> since a few days I experience a strange behaviour of duplicity.
> 
> While reviewing the logs a noticed that after a full backup
> (ftp-Backend) the list of exisiting backups shifts to one full backup
> (the last one) and several backup sets with "signature-less chains" (8
> till now).
> 
> In the logs with highest verbosity I found this line:
> 
> Running 'ncftpls -F -t 30 -u 'FTPUSER' -p '???' -X 'DELE
> duplicity-full-signatur
>  es.2007-09-29T23:00:03+02:00.sigtar.gpg' 'ftp://FTPSERVER/backup
>  /'' (attempt #1)
> 
> I guess that this is the key to my signature-less chains... but why?
> 
> Can (lol, I just wrote "Ken" - would be even good) anyone help me with
> this. By now I can restore the last backup but it seems that I lost my
> previous states.
> 
> I used the current 0.4.4RC3 of duplicity in connection with the
> wrapper-script ftplicity (I guess it's known by now?!).
> 
> Please help! :)

You only need sig files for doing incremental backups.  Once you have a
full backup the sigs from previous backups are no longer needed since
you cannot do an incremental based on a previous full backup.

From what you said, duplicity is working as it should.

...Ken

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