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Re: [Duplicity-talk] Bug in duplicity / rdiff-backup
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Kenneth Loafman |
Subject: |
Re: [Duplicity-talk] Bug in duplicity / rdiff-backup |
Date: |
Fri, 30 May 2008 06:55:57 -0500 |
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Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080505) |
Lasse Bigum wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a question regarding the use of --include-globbing-filelist with
> duplicity and rdiff-backup.
>
> The documentation, as far as I read it, states that you can use
> duplicity as such:
>
> duplicity --encrypt-key "xxxxxxxx" \
> --include-globbing-filelist backup-list \
> scp://address@hidden/backups
>
> where backup-list has:
> /root
> - **
>
> However, running this command fails:
> meridian config # duplicity --encrypt-key "xxxxxxxx"
> --include-globbing-filelist backup-list scp://address@hidden/backups
> Command line error: Expected 2 args, got 1
> Enter 'duplicity --help' for help screen.
>
> It makes a difference, though, if I put a slash '/' just before the remote
> host.
>
> I only discovered this when I was changing my scripts from rdiff-backup to
> duplicity as I have recently purchased some space for backups from them.
>
> While converting the scripts (mostly copy-paste), I accidentally removed
> the extra slash that I originally had, and now it did not work.
>
> I am, though, wondering why it is necessary. My reading, and that of
> address@hidden, of the documentation seems to indicate that it would
> not be needed.
>
> Reading the examples on this page seems to indicate that it is needed
> though:
> http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/examples.html
>
> The documentation states:
> duplicity [options] source_directory target_url
> and since --include-globbing-filelist is in the options category, I
> would find this to be the expected behaviour.
>
> Is this a bug in in the documentation/code or am I misunderstanding
> things?
No, its working as it should. You do need the source-directory spec
since the include list may contain relative pathnames. Those would be
impossible to resolve without the source directory itself.
...Ken
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