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username="http://joeyh.name/"
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nickname="joey"
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subject="comment 1"
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date="2013-05-23T15:55:16Z"
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content="""
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Please beware of the warning on the man page when using --trust-glacier-inventory:
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> Be careful using this, especially if you or someone else might
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> have recently removed a file from Glacier. If you try to drop
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> the only other copy of the file, and this switch is enabled, you
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> could lose data!
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While I'm inclined to want git-annex to store the necessary mappings from keys to glacier IDs in the git-annex branch, which would allow uploads/downloads from multiple repositories to the same glacier repository, it will not help with this problem. The git-annex branch can be out of date too.
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It seems that what's needed is a separate form of the checkpresent hook, that's used when deciding whether to copy data to glacier.
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We want this to trust the glacier inventory. But we don't want to trust the glacier inventory when moving data to glacier, or when running `git annex drop`! (unless --trust-glacier-inventory is specified). I think this would be easy to add. If you're up for testing a patch, I could do it today.
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BTW, there does seem to be a workaround that avoids duplicate copies to glacier:
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git annex copy --to glacier --not --in glacier
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While normally copy checks the inventory to see if a key has been sent to glacier, and so will re-send, the `--not --in glacier`
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trusts the location tracking information, so if git-annex has sent the key before, it will skip the copy.
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