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Question #248210 on Duplicity changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/duplicity/+question/248210

    Status: Open => Answered

edso proposed the following answer:
On 05.05.2014 22:26, A.M. wrote:
> New question #248210 on Duplicity:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/duplicity/+question/248210
> 
> Hi
> So I wrote took a script out of the internet ( http://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Duplicity_Script ) and modified it a little so it won't delete any updates, just do incremental backups when executed. When I execute the script in putty I get this:

any reason not to use http://duply.net ?

> Fatal Error: Unable to start incremental backup.  Old signatures not found and incremental specified
> 
> BUT everything is fine, the backup is created incrementally and the logs seem to be fine:

where does it say that, obviously not in your duplicity output
 
> http://pastebin.com/p5e4Drim

don't post -v9 logs or obfuscate anything wrt auth. change you
passphrase now. agn ;)

> 
> So my questions:
> 
> a) Why do I get the error in SSH?

don't see no error.. post complete output with error

> b) Where exactly is the point in running this let's say once a week, if for instance I loose a file and I notice that too late? Once the backup is ran the file is also missing in the backup right?
> 

but you hopefully have a backup from before when it was still there. see
manpage time option '-t'


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