Re: [Duplicity-talk] cannot remove older backup

[edgar . soldin]

if your cloud backend has no folders, but containers, well then containers ;)

what do you mean by name? ..ede


On 12.05.2017 16:37, John Covici wrote:
> By new folder, do you mean a new azure storage container, or a new
> name for my backups or both?
> 
> On Fri, 12 May 2017 10:21:54 -0400,
> edgar.soldin--- via Duplicity-talk wrote:
>>
>> On 12.05.2017 16:09, John Covici wrote:
>>> So, that sort of worked -- it removed things from the back end, but
>>> there seems to be a few files in the directory, but they are of no
>>> matter I suppose, the chains are definitely gone.
>>>
>>> In future if I need to do another full backup using par2, do I need to
>>> do it under a separate name?  If I do that will the remove older than
>>> work?
>>
>> as you found out duplicity does not like the par2 files unless it uses the 
>> par2 wrapper backend. unfortunately you ended up having chains w/ and w/o 
>> par2 files mixed in a folder. that's not something that was anticipated 
>> during development stage, obviously.
>>
>> next time simply choose an alternate target location (folder) when you start 
>> using par2 wrapper or do other major changes (like using a new duplicity 
>> version) eg.
>>
>> duplicity full /src file://backup
>>
>>  instead of
>>
>> duplicity full /src par2+file://backupWithPar2
>>
>> ..ede/duply.net
>>
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