Re: [Duplicity-talk] Duplicity Command Line

[Fabiano Bonin]

> Even though the previous man page documented 'actions' as 'options', the
> code was never written that way.  In reality, we have one and only one
> 'action' performed for each duplicity run (full, inc, verify, cleanup,
> etc.).  Adding additional actions did not cause that action to be
> performed (and it was not treated as an error).  It depended on the
> hierarchy of the code and was poorly documented, causing a lot of confusion.
>
> What I propose to do is make the command line like such:
>   duplicity [action] [options] [source] target
>
> i.e.
>   duplicity source targetURL
>   duplicity sourceURL target
>   duplicity cleanup targetURL
>   duplicity remove-older-than 1M targetURL
>
> The action will be one of the defined actions, sans any leading '-'
> (full or in assumed depending on the state of the collection).  The
> options will have the standard '-' for short options and '--' for long
> options.  Thus, there will be 3 positional parameters and the rest
> option parameters.

Your proposal seems very logical. I vote for it.

> One other consideration is 'remove-older-than'.  This action removes
> full backup sets.  One option that we need is a way to remove outdated
> incremental backups, i.e. incremental backups outdated by the next full
> backup.  I'm not quite sure if I want to implement this as an option to
> remove-older-than, or as a separate action.

I got it working using 'remove-older-than now'. Duplicity never remove
the last active chain.

Regards,

Fabiano.