Re: [Duplicity-talk] Need help in merging tardiffs

[Kenneth Loafman]

Antono Vasiljev wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 19:43 -0600, Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> 
>>> Trying to restore my backup. But something worng goes with duplicity.
>>> I've unencrypted all the tarrdiffs and now i would like to merge them
>>> together.
>>> Is there an easy way to do it?
>> Need a little more info.  What goes wrong?  What are you running on?
> 
> I'am on debian and ubuntu. 
> I created backup with duplicity and verified it. All was ok.
> Now i trying to restore it:
> 
> duplicity restore -v9 file://dup/ ./restore 2>&1 > undup.log
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 482, in <module>
>     with_tempdir(main)
>   File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 477, in with_tempdir
>     fn()
>   File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 407, in main
>     globals.archive_dir).set_values()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/duplicity/collections.py", line
> 481, in set_values
>     self.get_backup_chains(backend_filename_list)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/duplicity/collections.py", line
> 594, in get_backup_chains
>     map(add_to_sets, filename_list)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/duplicity/collections.py", line
> 584, in add_to_sets
>     if set.add_filename(filename):
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/duplicity/collections.py", line
> 67, in add_filename
>     self.set_manifest(filename)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/duplicity/collections.py", line
> 87, in set_manifest
>     remote_filename)
> AssertionError: ('duplicity-full.2008-11-22T05:35:26
> +02:00.manifest.gpg', 'duplicity-full.2008-11-22T05:35:26
> +02:00.manifest'
> 
> 
> Fullo log atached.
> 
>> What version of duplicity?  
> 
> duplicity 0.4.12
> 
> Was trying 5.x.x from debian lenny. Got the same result.
> 
>> A log, starting with the command line and
>> going to the end would help, especially if you turn on -v9 (verbose).
> 
> Attached.
> 
>> No, there is no easy way to do this.  Incremental backups do not copy
>> the entire changed file, only the changed portion, and you need the
>> duplicity package to put these back together.
> 
> I have not so much increments. So i'll be happy even if it will be
> possible to restore file from duplicity-full.* set.
> 
> Thank you in advance!

I don't think this is the original error, but one caused by the fact
that you decrypted all of the files previously.  Being careful, you need
to move the unencrypted files to a different directory before trying to
recover again, then we can see the original error.

...Thanks,
...Ken

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