Re: [Duplicity-talk] Archive files permissions, extra logging

[edgar . soldin]

On 11/10/2020 11:53, Adam Pribyl via Duplicity-talk wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Nov 2020, edgar.soldin--- via Duplicity-talk wrote:
>
>> On 11/10/2020 9:14, Adam Pribyl via Duplicity-talk wrote:
>>> Is there a way to change the permissions for the archive files created by 
>>> duplicity? It looks to me like this is hardcoded into the duplicity as 
>>> there is
>>>
>>> def do_backup(action)
>>>   ...
>>>   os.umask(0o77)
>>>   ...
>>>
>>> so it always creates the files with 600 (only user read/write),
>>
>> sounds reasonable as we do not want temporary/cache files created which 
>> potentially contain private data that are readable to anybody else. why 
>> would anybody else then the duplicity user who created them need access to 
>> these files?
>
> Maybe I did not used the proper naming for "archive files" - for duplicity 
> cache it is probably ok, but for backup files..  I'd like to e.g. have a 
> group of users able to extract the files from backups, but I have to 
> post-process the archives to add them group readability at least.

i see. creating backup files with a user selectable umask would be a sensible 
feature request. maybe you want to request or even contribute it?
https://gitlab.com/duplicity/duplicity

making the mask only apply to the backup volumes generated would be a little 
bit more elaborate than just setting the umask for the whole process though.

>>>
>>> Extra logging in the
>>>
>>> def list_current(col_stats):
>>>        ...
>>>             user_info = u"%s %s %s" % 
>>> (dup_time.timetopretty(path.getmtime()),
>>>                                     path.type,
>>>                                     util.ufn(path.get_relative_path()))
>>>             log_info = "%s %s %s" % (dup_time.timetostring(path.getmtime()),
>>>                                     util.escape(path.get_relative_path()),
>>>                                      path.type)
>>>             log.Log(user_info, log.INFO, log.InfoCode.file_list,
>>>                     log_info, True)
>>>
>>>
>>> but I did not found how to achieve the log_info to be printed. I can not 
>>> make sens out of log.Log function "extra" argument...
>>>
>>
>> did you try raising verbosity to 'info' as described on 
>> http://duplicity.nongnu.org/vers8/duplicity.1.html ?
>
> Yes, I did play with verbosity. Maybe I expect something different to happen, 
> but the line with the file listed via the list-current-files remains the 
> same. I thought it would add this extra info to eache line.
>
>> ..ede/duply.net
>
> Thanks anyway
>

you are right, it's not even shown with -v9. looks like a bug. ..ede/duply.net