It's been a couple of months since I last did a Duplicity backup [to Amazon S3] and, in the meantime thanks to an automatic 30-day rule I have on my Amazon buckets, my S3 backup has been moved from the 'normal' Reduced Redundancy storage to Amazon Glacier.
Now, when I run duply <backupname> verify -v9 I see the output getting hung up at the end with the following [This is after leaving it running overnight, as each restore from Glacier takes several hours]:
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Chain start time: Sun Dec 1 14:49:39 2013
Chain end time: Fri May 1 20:18:38 2015
Number of contained backup sets: 16
Total number of contained volumes: 1438
Type of backup set: Time: Num volumes:
Full Sun Dec 1 14:49:39 2013 318
Incremental Wed Dec 11 13:21:16 2013 1
Incremental Wed Dec 18 19:48:07 2013 15
Incremental Tue Dec 31 18:45:25 2013 4
Incremental Sat Jan 4 18:06:42 2014 9
Incremental Sat Feb 15 15:14:59 2014 15
Incremental Sat Feb 15 15:43:26 2014 1
Incremental Mon Feb 17 10:18:31 2014 3
Incremental Mon Feb 17 10:24:57 2014 1
Incremental Wed Feb 19 14:35:22 2014 1
Incremental Wed Feb 19 14:38:52 2014 1
Incremental Sun Mar 2 22:37:32 2014 514
Incremental Wed Jul 9 20:12:22 2014 26
Incremental Sat Dec 6 22:57:27 2014 262
Incremental Fri May 1 18:37:57 2015 266
Incremental Fri May 1 20:18:38 2015 1
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No orphaned or incomplete backup sets found.
Using temporary directory /tmp/duplicity-Q5My3G-tempdir
Registering (mktemp) temporary file /tmp/duplicity-Q5My3G-tempdir/mktemp-DGtqcn-1
File duplicity-full.20131201T144939Z.vol1.difftar.gpg is in Glacier storage, restoring to S3
Waiting for file duplicity-full.20131201T144939Z.vol1.difftar.gpg to restore from Glacier
File duplicity-full.20131201T144939Z.vol1.difftar.gpg was successfully restored from Glacier
Registering (mktemp) temporary file /tmp/duplicity-Q5My3G-tempdir/mktemp-AQObTq-2
Waiting for file duplicity-inc.20131201T144939Z.to.20131211T132116Z.vol1.difftar.gpg to restore from Glacier
File duplicity-inc.20131201T144939Z.to.20131211T132116Z.vol1.difftar.gpg was successfully restored from Glacier
Registering (mktemp) temporary file /tmp/duplicity-Q5My3G-tempdir/mktemp-U6R9NX-3
File duplicity-inc.20131211T132116Z.to.20131218T194807Z.vol1.difftar.gpg is in Glacier storage, restoring to S3
Waiting for file duplicity-inc.20131211T132116Z.to.20131218T194807Z.vol1.difftar.gpg to restore from Glacier
File duplicity-inc.20131211T132116Z.to.20131218T194807Z.vol1.difftar.gpg was successfully restored from Glacier
Registering (mktemp) temporary file /tmp/duplicity-Q5My3G-tempdir/mktemp-6ZNOgl-4
File duplicity-inc.20131218T194807Z.to.20131231T184525Z.vol1.difftar.gpg is in Glacier storage, restoring to S3
Waiting for file duplicity-inc.20131218T194807Z.to.20131231T184525Z.vol1.difftar.gpg to restore from Glacier
Now, I was kind of expecting the latest difftar file to have to be unfrozen from Glacier, in order for Duplicity to carry on from where it left off last time. But, given backups are incremental, I'm puzzled as to why it seems to be 'unfreezing' further [earlier] difftar files. I've cancelled the command for the moment but I need to find out whether it's safe to try again. If Duplicity needs to unfreeze a handful of difftar files, before resuming, that's fine. But with over 80GB backed up, I can't afford to let it unfreeze my entire backup archive.
Anybody got any ideas on this?
Last time, Duplicity was on my radar, I know there was talk of adding support for Glacier and the Waiting ... to restore from Glacier message suggest this has been done. However, as my backup files have been moved to Glacier by an automatic bucket rule, rather than explicitly through Duplicity itself, I'm not sure whether or not this has messed things up, as regards being able to resume that backup.
