Duplicity

collection-status should list dates in a format accepted by restore -t

Bug #1302151 reported by Steven Barre
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Bug Description

The date/time printed out by collection-status are not acceptable for -t on restore. This means wrapping tools need to parse and transform the date.

Would also be nice if the collection-status could optionally be returned as XML/JSON or some other markup for easier parsing.

duplicity 0.6.21 (January 23, 2013)
Linux XXX 2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Nov 22 03:15:09 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64
/usr/bin/python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Nov 22 2013, 12:16:22)
[GCC 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-4)]
CentOS 6.5

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Pierre Ozoux (pierre-t) wrote :

This is more a feature request I believe, but I totally agree!

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Pavel Piatruk (piatruk-p) wrote :

+1 for this bug.
As a workaround you could get dates in format that is acceptable for restoring using this oneliner.

apt-get install libtimedate-perl

duplicity collection-status $DEST | perl -ne 'if (/^\s+(Incremental|Full)\s+(.+)\s+\d+$/) { print $2,"\n" }' | perl -ne ' use Time::Piece; use Date::Parse ; print localtime( str2time("$_") )->strftime("%FT%T\n") '

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