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SUSE13.1: Increase the size of Duplicity difftar files created by SUSE's default backup program

I'm using the default backup program on SuSE 13.1 - which appears to be Duplicity based. I'm backing up a directory of about 250GB (GIG!) and duplicity is creating a new ...

duplicity-inc.20141213T125204Z.to.20141213T130648Z.vol1.difftar.gz

...file EVERY 26.2 MB (MEG!)

At this rate I'm going to have 700 billion files.

I can't find a config file where I can change this to a more reasonable value.

Can anyone help?

Thanks!

gheist

default duplicity volume size is 25MB
it has no config files and few environment variables (like passwords), so you have to add parameter to it (via GUI if possible at all) to make volumes of size you want.

slubek

man duplicity:

--volsize number
    Change the volume size to number Mb. Default is 25Mb.

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Mike R.

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Good to know it's possible. So, I don't call this from a script or the command line. SuSE 13 comes with (I believe) Deja-Dup as the front end GUI. It allows for a password to restore...allows you to set directories to be backed and ignored, etc. But no way (that I can see) to set that volume size.

However, since the things I enter into the GUI persist...I'm assuming these are written somewhere and incorporated into the call initiated by Deja-Dup.

Any idea where and how to add this to that call?

Thanks!

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