Duplicity

how to avoid download of signature files

Asked by Alex Robinson

Backed up to a USB drive, then tested on a local machine through SSH, then went remote.

183g in the backup directory. The full backup sig file is 2g+.

duplicity seems to indicate that it'll take 8 hours or more to download the full sig file with my rural net connection saturated.

That's a problem for a daily update.

I see mention of caching in comments on the web, but found no cached files on the to-be-backed-up machine.

Is there a way to get the sig files cached locally or something of the sort?

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Kenneth Loafman (kenneth-loafman) said : 		#1

Alex Robinson wrote:
> New question #108409 on Duplicity:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/duplicity/+question/108409
>
> Backed up to a USB drive, then tested on a local machine through SSH, then went remote.
>
> 183g in the backup directory. The full backup sig file is 2g+.
>
> duplicity seems to indicate that it'll take 8 hours or more to download the full sig file with my rural net connection saturated.
>
> That's a problem for a daily update.
>
> I see mention of caching in comments on the web, but found no cached files on the to-be-backed-up machine.
>
> Is there a way to get the sig files cached locally or something of the sort?

The newer versions of duplicity cache the files locally:
https://code.launchpad.net/duplicity/+download

...Ken

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Alex Robinson (alex-launchpad-tranzoa) said : 		#2

Thanks. Any guess about when it'll be rolled in to Ubuntu's packages? (I'm running 0.5.18 under Karmic 64bit).