[Duplicity-talk] strange error when doing a backup

[John Covici]

I am trying to do a backup  using duplicity 7.10 on a Mac operating
system 10.11.6.  I am getting the following error which I don't
understand what to do with:
After adding all the incremental backup sets, I get
Last full backup date: Wed May  4 17:14:16 2016
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/local/bin/duplicity", line 1546, in <module>
    with_tempdir(main)
  File "/opt/local/bin/duplicity", line 1540, in with_tempdir
    fn()
  File "/opt/local/bin/duplicity", line 1391, in main
    do_backup(action)
  File "/opt/local/bin/duplicity", line 1521, in do_backup
    check_last_manifest(col_stats)  # not needed for full backup
  File "/opt/local/bin/duplicity", line 1222, in check_last_manifest
    last_backup_set.check_manifests()
  File 
"/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/duplicity/collections.py",
 line 199, in check_manifests
    remote_manifest = self.get_remote_manifest()
  File 
"/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/duplicity/collections.py",
 line 234, in get_remote_manifest
    manifest_buffer = self.backend.get_data(self.remote_manifest_name)
  File 
"/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/duplicity/backend.py",
 line 679, in get_data
    assert not fin.close()
  File 
"/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/duplicity/dup_temp.py",
 line 226, in close
    assert not self.fileobj.close()
  File 
"/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/duplicity/gpg.py",
 line 259, in close
    self.gpg_failed()
  File 
"/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/duplicity/gpg.py",
 line 223, in gpg_failed
    msg += unicode(line.strip(), locale.getpreferredencoding(), 'replace') + 
u"\n"
LookupError: unknown encoding:

Any ideas as to how to fix this error would be appreciated.




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