Re: [Duplicity-talk] cannot remove older backup

[edgar . soldin]

check --archive-dir, --name descriptions in the manpage
  http://duplicity.nongnu.org/duplicity.1.html

generally there is no need to set it. if you do make sure that the same name or 
archive dir is not used for different targets (backends, backend 
folders/containers) .

so, yes - change the name as well or better, simply don't give it.

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On 12.05.2017 16:54, John Covici wrote:
> By name I mean the  --name parameter on the duplicity command line.
> 
> On Fri, 12 May 2017 10:43:50 -0400,
> edgar.soldin--- via Duplicity-talk wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>>>
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