[Duplicity-talk] lftp doesn't mkdir

[Davide Setti]

Hi all,
i'm using duplicity version 4.3.8 from debian sid, and i noticed that,
using lftp, duplicity is not able to connect to the FTP server to list
files.

My FTP server is accessible using both FTP and FTPS. If i use ftp (and
ncftp) everything works fine, but with FTPS (and lftp) duplicity can't
access the file list because the "ls" command retries forever until:

<--- 450 backup_dir: No such file or directory
ls: Fatal error: max-retries exceeded

I suppose this happens because of the fault tolerancy of lftp: given a
command lftp tries to repeat it until it succeed. In this case the 405
return code is interpreted like a failure.

To replicate this enable debug in lftp.

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Davide Setti
code: http://github.com/vad