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Re: [Duplicity-talk] Upgrade/rollback difficulties
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edgar . soldin |
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Re: [Duplicity-talk] Upgrade/rollback difficulties |
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Wed, 05 Nov 2014 10:38:04 +0100 |
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On 05.11.2014 01:51, Russell Clemings wrote:
> 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.
yes, unfortunately though new releases still fix bugs. not aware of a
showstopper as fixed in 0.6.23 though.
> In any case with your help I am now able to use 0.6.23 on both servers.
> Thanks.
nP
>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.
if you checked
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~duplicity-team/duplicity/0.6-series/view/head:/CHANGELOG
and did a backup/verfiy run
and run verify periodically
you should be on the safe side.
..ede/duply.net
>
> rac
>
> On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 12:25 PM, <address@hidden <mailto: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 <http://duply.net>
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