[Duplicity-talk] subject: --short-filenames, possible bug ?

[Manuel Yguel]

Hi,
I am a brand new user of duplicity, precisely, I am currently making
tests to see if it fulfills my needs.
I just hit some strange error using the following command:

duplicity  --short-filenames ~/these/research_report/
file://./tests/duplicity_short_filenames

Hier is the error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1239, in <module>
    with_tempdir(main)
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1232, in with_tempdir
    fn()
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1118, in main
    action = commandline.ProcessCommandLine(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/duplicity/commandline.py",
line 878, in ProcessCommandLine
    args = parse_cmdline_options(cmdline_list)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/duplicity/commandline.py",
line 452, in parse_cmdline_options
    (options, args) = parser.parse_args()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/optparse.py", line 1394, in parse_args
    stop = self._process_args(largs, rargs, values)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/optparse.py", line 1434, in _process_args
    self._process_long_opt(rargs, values)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/optparse.py", line 1509, in _process_long_opt
    option.process(opt, value, values, self)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/optparse.py", line 788, in process
    self.action, self.dest, opt, value, values, parser)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/duplicity/commandline.py",
line 169, in take_action
    self, action, dest, opt, value, values, parser)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/optparse.py", line 808, in take_action
    self.callback(self, opt, value, parser, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/duplicity/commandline.py",
line 403, in <lambda>
    callback=lambda o, s, v, p: (setattr(p.values, o.dest, True),
TypeError: attribute name must be string, not 'NoneType'


I am using duplicity 0.6.08b (ubuntu 10.04 version)
with python 2.6.5


By the way, is the option to produce a tar on the target backup
repository one of the rsync options or is this a special feature of
duplicity?

- best regards,

Manuel