[Duplicity-talk] Different behaviou lftp and ncftp

[Carsten Schmitz]

Hello everyone,

due to a bug in lftp on Ubuntu Bionic I am forced to use ncftp at them moment ( see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lftp/+bug/1902832 ) with duplicity.

However, I noticed when creating a backup by FTP to a non-existing remote directory that ncftp will not create that directory automatically (duplicity throwing an error)  while lftp will just do it.

Is this a bug in the duplicity-ncftp implementation that needs to be reported? Or do I need to use some special setting for ncftp? I checked the documentation and found no information that the target directory should be automatically created (so far I assumed that would be the logical behaviour)

Is there maybe an easy workaround?

Thank you in advance for any insight!

Best regards

Carsten