Re: [Duplicity-talk] Problem with scp backend and --collection-status

[Kenneth Loafman]

Andreas Schildbach wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm trying to run this command
>
> duplicity --collection-status scp://address@hidden/backup/
>
> but I get the following error:
>
> Permission denied (publickey,password,keyboard-interactive).
> Couldn't read packet: Connection reset by peer
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 373, in <module>
>     if __name__ == "__main__": main()
>   File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 349, in main
>     globals.archive_dir).set_values()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/duplicity/collections.py", line 
> 406, in set_values
>     backend_filename_list = self.backend.list()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/duplicity/backends.py", line 
> 299, in list
>     l = self.popen(commandline).split('\n')[2:] # omit sftp prompts
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/duplicity/backends.py", line 
> 150, in popen
>     raise BackendException("Error running '%s'" % commandline)
> duplicity.backends.BackendException: Error running 'printf 'cd backup/
> ls -1' | sftp -b - address@hidden'
>
> Is there any way around it?

Make sure you can ssh or sftp into the system without needing a 
password.  I ran across this when I had not set up the certs on my new 
system.

...Ken