Duplicity

Why is duplicity-full-signatures.*.sigtar.gpg so big?

Asked by Scott Severance

I've noticed that I've got files with names of the form "duplicity-full-signatures.*.sigtar.gpg" that are huge: 1 or 2 GB. Contrast this with the other files which are 10MB each. Why are the sigtar files so much larger?

I'm using Rackspace and trying to do some management of my backups, but I'm having a terrible time since it's nearly impossible for me to successfully download a 2GB file without my Internet connection flaking out in the middle of the download. Couldn't those files be broken up into smaller chunks? And why do I need to download GBs worth of data just so I can run "duplicity remove-all-but-n-full"?

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#1

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Bruce Pieterse (octoquad) said : 		#2

Hi Scott,

I'm sorry nobody got back to you regarding this question.

I think this is normal for duplicity to do as the default volume size is 25mb. If you increase the volume size to say 50mb or 75mb using the --volsize switch (if you are running a script and not using the deja-dup frontend) you might be able to decrease the file size of the signature files by 50-75%. I have not tested this myself, but in theory it should work. I presume you are also backing up a large amount of files, hence the total number of signatures being generated.

If you have more questions, please feel free to ask :)

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Bruce Pieterse (octoquad) said : 		#3

Question answered. See above.

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