Re: [Duplicity-talk] problem with ssh backend in 0.6.16

[Eliot Moss]

On 11/22/2011 9:16 AM, Kilian Lackhove wrote:
> Hello,
>
> ive just upgraded to duplicity 0.6.16 which broke the ssh backend for me:
>
> $ /usr/local/bin$ /usr/bin/duplicity remove-older-than 1M -v 9
> --encrypt-key yyy --sign-key yyy
> ssh://address@hidden/users/xxx/duplicity/etc/
>
> (snip)
> ================================================================================
> duplicity 0.6.16 (October 16, 2011)
> Args: /usr/bin/duplicity remove-older-than 1M -v 9 --encrypt-key yyy
> --sign-key yyy ssh://address@hidden/users/xxx/duplicity/etc/
> Linux rechenknecht 3.1.1-1-ck #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Nov 12 06:26:40 EST
> 2011 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) II X3 440 Processor
> /usr/bin/python2 2.7.2 (default, Jun 29 2011, 11:10:00)
> [GCC 4.6.1]
> ================================================================================
> Running 'sftp  -oServerAliveInterval=15 -oServerAliveCountMax=2
> address@hidden' (attempt #1)
> State = sftp, Before = 'Connected to sftp.hidrive.strato.com.'
> sftp command: 'mkdir "users"'
> State = sftp, Before = 'mkdir "users"
> Couldn't create directory:'
> Invalid SSH password
>
> It seems like duplicity wants to create the dir "users" even though it
> already exists. As a workaround i changed line 287 in sshbackend.py
> from mkdir_commands += ["mkdir \"%s\"" % (d)] + ["cd \"%s\"" % (d)] to
> mkdir_commands += ["cd \"%s\"" % (d)] which solved the problem for me.
> Of course that breaks the creating of non-existent dirs, so dont
> consider  this a patch ;)

Maybe putting -p in the flags to mkdir? (Means: no error if the directory
exists, *and* create parent directories on the path if they do not already
exist.)

Best -- Eliot Moss