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[Aaron Whitehouse <question116587@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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:
(1) did a backup (so that we knew the remote location *should* match the local files);
(2) pulled down all necessary files from the remote backup location (roughly file by file, so that the minimum necessary had to be stored in the local temporary location);
(3) extracted the most recent versions of each file from the backup archives;
(4) compared each file from the backup archives to the local versions; and
(5) reported any errors or differences.

Does the "verify" option in duplicity provide this functionality?

I've read the man page:
http://duplicity.nongnu.org/duplicity.1.html
"verify
    Enter verify mode instead of restore. If the --file-to-restore option is given, restrict verify to that file or directory. duplicity will exit with a non-zero error level if any files are different. On verbosity level 4 or higher, log a message for each file that has changed."
but that wasn't very clear to me.

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