Comment 21 for bug 1170161

For LTS versions Ubuntu does not allow anything but fixes. For
enhancements you need to go the the duplicity PPA.

On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 6:34 PM, rfkrocktk <email address hidden>
wrote:

> Edit: it seems to have been released as an RPM (as per here:
> https://launchpad.net/duplicity/+milestone/0.6.24), but not as a DEB,
> any reason why?
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> Title:
> FeatReq: alternate filenames to support S3/Glacier
>
> Status in Duplicity - Bandwidth Efficient Encrypted Backup:
> Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> Feature request: be nice when using S3/Glacier to only transition the
> difftars to Glacier, while leaving the manifests and sigtars alone.
> Given the current duplicity naming scheme, and the limitations of the
> Glacier transition rules, this is currently impossible. S3 transition
> rules can distinguish which files to transition to Glacier by matching
> against a file prefix -- a direct string match, not a regexp match. So
> basically you need to be able to tell if it's a manifest, sigtar, or
> difftar by looking at the part before the timestamp. At present
> sigtars can be identified this way, but manifests and difftars and not
> distinguishable by a prefix match.
>
> This feature would also permit a simple workaround for bug 1170113.
>
> Some discussion of this feature request is in this mailing list thread:
>
> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/duplicity-talk/2013-04/msg00052.html
>
> I also note that recent discussion of bug 1039511 has touched on this
> same feature request.
>
> I am attaching a patch to 0.6.21, which patch is completely untested,
> which implements a version of this scheme. This patch introduces a
> switch "--alternate-filenames" which directs duplicity to generate the
> alternate filenames, but with or without the switch it will read both
> old and new filenames. Thus I believe this can work with a mix of old
> and new filenames in a backup chain. Again, the patch is untested.
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