Re: [Duplicity-talk] Upgrade/rollback difficulties

[Russell Clemings]

I do care about my data. Are you saying there's a data loss risk with 0.6.23 as well? I understood your prior to mean it was fixed with that release.

In any case with your help I am now able to use 0.6.23 on both servers. Thanks. Not sure I want to spend the extra time (I care about that too!) to upgrade to 0.6.25 unless there's a compelling reason to do so. I don't see one in the changelog but I may be missing something.

rac

On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 12:25 PM, <address@hidden> wrote:

On 04.11.2014 21:16, Russell Clemings wrote:
> That worked great on the second (python 2.6) server, thanks.
>
> On the first (python 2.4.3) server I get:
>
>   File "/usr/local/src/duplicity-0.6.23/duplicity/progress.py", line 128
>     class ProgressTracker():
> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>
> I see a bug report (but no details) that suggests duplicity-0.6.23 won't work with python 2.4:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/duplicity/+bug/1264847
>
> The README still says "Python v2.4 or later."

probably an oversight. sorry, but 2.4 is ancient by now and i see nobody going to fix the now deprecated 0.6 line.

> Suggestions?

yes.. simply compile/install a local python 2.6 or later, not 3.. download the tar.gz, read the INSTALL. it boils down to

configure --prefix=/usr/local/python-2.x
make install

when it complains about missing dependencies try to find out which package of your distro provides them and install, rerun

> This is what works for me:
> duplicity 0.6.21
> Python 2.4.3
> boto.Version '1.9b'
>
> This gives me the error noted above:
> duplicity 0.6.23
> Python 2.4.3
> boto.Version '2.0'
>

as i wrote.. latest is 0.6.25 and i suggest you use it if you value your data.
alternatively run verify after each backup or at least periodically.

..ede/duply.net

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