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Question #194769 on Duplicity changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/duplicity/+question/194769

    Status: Open => Answered

edso proposed the following answer:
On 26.04.2012 11:21, TheKind wrote:
> New question #194769 on Duplicity:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/duplicity/+question/194769
> 
> Duplicity is creating too many files in the same directory. Regularely, i hit the maximum limit of files per folder and duplicity returns an error :
> 
> ncftpput duplicity-inc.20120425T030106Z.to.20120426T030047Z.vol114.difftar.gpg: server said: Too many files: [duplicity-inc.20120425T030106Z.to.20120426T030047Z.vol114.difftar.gpg] won't be saved, faites des tarballs.
> Running 'ncftpput -f /tmp/duplicity-wjQNBe-tempdir/mkstemp-3jqQJ2-1 -F -t 30 -o useCLNT=0,useHELP_SITE=0  -m -V -C '/tmp/duplicity-wjQNBe-tempdir/mktemp-S8Rkvf-117' 'duplicity-inc.20120425T030106Z.to.20120426T030047Z.vol114.difftar.gpg'' failed (attempt #1)
> 
> I have been searching on the mailing list and Google, I didn't find anything about that problem. Wouldn't it possible to have an option to force duplicity to use folders to save its file (year/month structure for instance) ? 
> 

This could be hacked into duplicity and for users with tight limits like
you it seems to make sense. Anyway, duplicity in it's current state does
not support this.

You can however raise the volume size and therefore minimize the amount of volumes per backup. See manpage
http://duplicity.nongnu.org/duplicity.1.html

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