Re: [Duplicity-talk] Newbie Ubuntu Problems

[dAniel hAhler]

On 9/27/07, Ian Barton wrote:

> > Here is the relevant section of sources.list:
> > [...]

> Made a bit more progress. I added
> deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty-proposed universe to my
> sources.list and now have got 0.4.2-10.1ubuntu1.1 installed.

duplicity is in universe, for which you have not enabled the
feisty-updates repository (only for main and restricted, which seems
to be the default).


>  However, I am getting errors when restoring.
> I back up to another server on my network using:
> duplicity --encrypt-key "81AEC9E9"  /home/data/Spreadsheets
> scp://address@hidden/tmp
>
> I now try to restore using:
> duplicity --encrypt-key "81AEC9E9"   scp://address@hidden/tmp
> /home/ian/tmp
>
> Sample output is:
>
> address@hidden:~/backup_scripts$ ./test_duplicity.sh
> duplicity-full.2007-09-27T08:08:31+01:00.manifest.gpg 100%  508
> 0.5KB/s   00:00
> duplicity-full.2007-09-27T08:08:31+01:00.vol1.difftar 100% 3065KB
> 3.0MB/s   00:00
> Error '[Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/home/ian/tmp/2000 Cash
> Flow.xls'' processing 2000 Cash Flow.xls
> Error '[Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/home/ian/tmp/2001 Cash
> Flow.xls'' processing 2001 Cash Flow.xls
> Error '[Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/home/ian/tmp/2003 Cash
> Flow.xls'' processing 2003 Cash Flow.xls
>
> However, the files are correctly restored to /home/ian/tmp. I have chmod
> /home/ian/tmp to 777, so I don't think it's a permissions problem.

This looks like a problem when chowning or chmodding the files to the
original user or permissions.
Try restoring with "sudo" and if that does not help, use "-v9" for
maximum verbosity of duplicity's output.