Question #183711 on Duplicity changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/duplicity/+question/183711
edso proposed the following answer: On 16.05.2012 02:01, Scott wrote: > Question #183711 on Duplicity changed: > https://answers.launchpad.net/duplicity/+question/183711 > > Scott posted a new comment: > Well, I've done some more testing and I think I need to retract a couple > of my earlier issues. > good to hear > 3. My root gpg-agent has been running for 4 days now with the passphrases > still cached and being used by my nightly backup script. I have these values > in my /root/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf: > max-cache-ttl 60480000 > default-cache-ttl 60480000 could you doublecheck that it indeed hasn't lost the passphrase for the encryption key. during normal operation duplicity actually never needs it except when - archive dir is out of sync - backup is to be resumed so it is absolutely feasible that everything works ok until one of the above happens > 4. I believe you said in a previous post of mine that 0.6.18 didn't seem > to be respecting the --num-retries parameter only the ssh paramiko backend in case you happen to use it. this will be fixed in 0.6.19 > 5. I use keychain to start my gpg-agent, so I use this line in my script to > source the keys for cron: > eval `keychain --eval web_rsa 42A79D21 E6C991E3` || exit 1 never knew it existed. it makes sure that one instance of the agents is running per user and put this into your environment when run in .profile, right? > I apologize if I've caused a little extra noise here over the past > several days!! I was getting pretty frustrated until I hit on the right > combo of bugfixes and script parameters to get everything working right. no worries, you actually shed some pretty important light on the issue > Let me know if I can provide any additional information. last but not least, thanks for the exhaustive analysis shared with us today. i am ede, i am using duplicity ;) ... ede/duply.net -- You received this question notification because you are a member of duplicity-team, which is an answer contact for Duplicity. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~duplicity-team Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~duplicity-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
