Bug#572792: duplicity: Archive dir local cache tends to grow in unlimited way

2010-03-15 Thread Alexander Zangerl
tag 572792 + pending thanks On Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:22:18 +0100, Olivier Berger writes: >However, there's currently a problem in the way this dir is managed, >since traces of old backups tend to accumulate. i've now packaged 0.6.08b (which doesn't address this in any way) and incorporated a fair

Bug#572792: duplicity: Archive dir local cache tends to grow in unlimited way

2010-03-07 Thread Alexander Zangerl
On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 08:44:38 +0100, Olivier Berger writes: >However, are you sure --extra-clean is a real workaround ? a workaround it surely is: it makes the pain go away and it makes duplicity usable without eating up your diskspace. it's of course not a complete, proper, fix for the inconsis

Bug#572792: duplicity: Archive dir local cache tends to grow in unlimited way

2010-03-06 Thread Olivier Berger
Hi. On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 01:38:21PM +1000, Alexander Zangerl wrote: > > workaround: it's trivial to get duplicity to clean that area. > > duplicity cleanup --extra-clean --force > takes care of removing precisely this old, uninteresting stuff. > Thanks for caring. However, are you

Bug#572792: duplicity: Archive dir local cache tends to grow in unlimited way

2010-03-06 Thread Alexander Zangerl
MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii tags 572792 + upstream several 572792 minor thanks On Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:22:18 +0100, Olivier Berger writes: >However, there's currently a problem in the way this dir is managed, since >traces >of old backups tend to accumula

Bug#572792: duplicity: Archive dir local cache tends to grow in unlimited way

2010-03-06 Thread Olivier Berger
Package: duplicity Version: 0.6.06-3 Severity: important Hi. since 0.6, duplicity uses a local cache of previous backups (mainly useful for incremental mode) that's stored in the archive-dir, by default in ~/.cache/duplicity/ However, there's currently a problem in the way this dir is managed,