Re: [Duplicity-talk] Newbie Ubuntu Problems

[Kenneth Loafman]

Ian Barton wrote:
> I am evaluating duplicity on Ubuntu Feisty, which has version 0.4.2
> installed. Backing up works fine via either ssh or ftp. However,
> everything else seems to be broken:)
> 
> Most importantly restore doesn't work:
> 
> duplicity --encrypt-key "81AEC9E9"
> scp://address@hidden/Spreadsheets /home/ian/tmp
> 
> duplicity-full.2007-09-26T12:16:11+01:00.manifest.gpg 100%  509
> 0.5KB/s   00:00
> duplicity-full.2007-09-26T12:16:11+01:00.vol1.difftar 100% 3064KB
> 3.0MB/s   00:00
> No files found in archive - nothing restored.
> 
> This happens with both ssh and ftp on a variety of target computers. I
> have tried running as root, so I don't think it's a permissions problem.
> Obviously write only backups aren't much use:)

Obviously.  How was the backup done?  Same machine?

> If I try --list-current-files no files are listed.

Same problem.

> Verify also seems to be broken:
> 
> duplicity --encrypt-key "81AEC9E9" --verify /home/data/Spreadsheets
> scp://address@hidden/Spreadsheets
> 
> Command line error: --verify option cannot be used when backing up
> See the duplicity manual page for instructions

At least this one is not duplicity's.  With verify the source and target
need to be reversed, i.e --verify scp://ian... /home/data/...

> If I upgrade to the current version is this likely to fix these
> problems? Am I doing something dumb?

Except for verify, everything should have worked as far as I can tell.
Please upgrade to 0.4.3 and try again.  It should be in the repositories
by now.  If not, download it from:

http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/duplicity/duplicity-0.4.3.tar.gz

If everything works then all is good.  If not, please run with the -v9
option (very verbose) and post the output from the command line to the
end of the run.  That will help us debug the problem.

...Thanks,
...Ken

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