Re: [Duplicity-team] [Question #116587]: Can the verify option be used to ensure the entire backup could restore without error?

Question #116587 on Duplicity changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/duplicity/+question/116587 Status: Answered = Solved Aaron Whitehouse confirmed that the question is solved: Thanks Kenneth Loafman, that solved my question. -- You received this question notification because you are a

Re: [Duplicity-team] [Question #116587]: Can the verify option be used to ensure the entire backup could restore without error?

If you agree with these changes, please let me know and I will file another bug suggesting the changes to the man page. They sounds good to me, but Kenneth will be the final judge ;) As you have already made clear, there are two issues here. The first is what duplicity is meant to do. It

Re: [Duplicity-team] [Question #116587]: Can the verify option be used to ensure the entire backup could restore without error?

Question #116587 on Duplicity changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/duplicity/+question/116587 Peter Schuller proposed the following answer: And btw, launchpad is auto-answering the question every time I respond I think... I'm not manually doing it. -- / Peter Schuller You received this

Re: [Duplicity-team] [Question #116587]: Can the verify option be used to ensure the entire backup could restore without error?

Question #116587 on Duplicity changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/duplicity/+question/116587 edso proposed the following answer: Works for me .. We should document this more clearly in the man page. Something like Verify is done by comparing the archive contents with the stored signatures,

Re: [Duplicity-team] [Question #116587]: Can the verify option be used to ensure the entire backup could restore without error?

Question #116587 on Duplicity changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/duplicity/+question/116587 Peter Schuller proposed the following answer: [kenneth responded but the question didn't end up on cc; quoting him entirely] Going to jump in here rather than later in the thread where its messy.

Re: [Duplicity-team] [Question #116587]: Can the verify option be used to ensure the entire backup could restore without error?

Question #116587 on Duplicity changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/duplicity/+question/116587 Status: Answered = Open Aaron Whitehouse is still having a problem: Thanks a lot, Peter. To confirm, (aside from your bug) verify tests the actual archive files, not just the remote manifests?

[Duplicity-team] [Question #116587]: Can the verify option be used to ensure the entire backup could restore without error?

Question #116587 on Duplicity changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/duplicity/+question/116587 Linked to bug: #601779 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/601779 Provide GUI way to verify backup could restore without error -- You received this question notification because you are a

Re: [Duplicity-team] [Question #116587]: Can the verify option be used to ensure the entire backup could restore without error?

To confirm, (aside from your bug) verify tests the actual archive files, not just the remote manifests? I love that you're asking, because this prompted me to test this - and it seems it does NOT, which should be very clearly documented. I'll file bugs. When I've done verification I've

Re: [Duplicity-team] [Question #116587]: Can the verify option be used to ensure the entire backup could restore without error?

Question #116587 on Duplicity changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/duplicity/+question/116587 Status: Open = Answered Peter Schuller proposed the following answer: To confirm, (aside from your bug) verify tests the actual archive files, not just the remote manifests? I love that you're

[Duplicity-team] [Question #116587]: Can the verify option be used to ensure the entire backup could restore without error?

Question #116587 on Duplicity changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/duplicity/+question/116587 Linked to bug: #601785 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/601785 verify command does not verify contents of files -- You received this question notification because you are a member of

Re: [Duplicity-team] [Question #116587]: Can the verify option be used to ensure the entire backup could restore without error?

If that is what verify does, perhaps the man page could be clearer: The following command compares the files we backed up, so see what has changed since then: To me, that description sounds more like a --dry-run, or similar. Agreed, though modified to account for the fact that contents is

Re: [Duplicity-team] [Question #116587]: Can the verify option be used to ensure the entire backup could restore without error?

Question #116587 on Duplicity changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/duplicity/+question/116587 Peter Schuller proposed the following answer: If that is what verify does, perhaps the man page could be clearer: The following command compares the files we backed up, so see what has changed

[Duplicity-team] [Question #116587]: Can the verify option be used to ensure the entire backup could restore without error?

New question #116587 on Duplicity: https://answers.launchpad.net/duplicity/+question/116587 I am looking for a way to verify that the backup could restore without error. I now use Duplicity as my only backup mechanism. It would be excellent if, once every so often, I could run something that:

Re: [Duplicity-team] [Question #116587]: Can the verify option be used to ensure the entire backup could restore without error?

Question #116587 on Duplicity changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/duplicity/+question/116587 Status: Open = Answered Peter Schuller proposed the following answer: I am looking for a way to verify that the backup could restore without error. I now use Duplicity as my only backup

[Duplicity-team] [Question #116587]: Can the verify option be used to ensure the entire backup could restore without error?

Question #116587 on Duplicity changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/duplicity/+question/116587 Linked to bug: #601660 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/601660 verify command does not penetrate cache/archive -- You received this question notification because you are a member of