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

2010-07-05 Thread Aaron Whitehouse
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?

2010-07-05 Thread Aaron Whitehouse
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?

2010-07-05 Thread Peter Schuller
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?

2010-07-05 Thread Peter Schuller
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?

2010-07-05 Thread Peter Schuller
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?

2010-07-05 Thread Peter Schuller
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?

2010-07-05 Thread Peter Schuller
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

Re: [Duplicity-team] [Question #115570]: Volume size: Pros and Cons of big Volumes?

2010-07-05 Thread edso
Question #115570 on Duplicity changed: https://answers.launchpad.net/duplicity/+question/115570 edso posted a new comment: You might want to try asking gpg to use another compressor e.g. --compress-algo=bzip2 --bzip2-compress-level=9 ..ede On 05.07.2010 09:19, Rodrigo Alvarez wrote: Question