Re: [Duplicity-talk] Restore testing fails; non-emergency request

[edgar . soldin]

hey Anonymous,

something seems wrong with you backup repo.

1. please post a file listing of the rsync folder?
2. what's the output of `duplicity collection-status`?
3. did duplicity 1.x restore that location? it would seem not.

..ede/duply.net


On 06.01.2024 21:33, duplicity--- via Duplicity-talk wrote:
> All, TIA.   I have several years experience with duplicity, albeit not widely 
> on multiple installations. I have used restore for directories and individual 
> files in my old scheme and I have migrated gpg and ssh keys to a new machine 
> and restored a home directory. Both of the following scripts are lightly edited 
> portions of working scripts from the old scheme.
>
> Now I am testing a new scheme so I want to ensure restore works before I depend 
> on the backup. I am restoring a user's home directory to /home/restore/user as 
> a simulation of what I would do if I need to restore and move an entire 
> directory.
>
> root@myhost:~# duplicity -V
> duplicity 2.1.5
> root@myhost:~# uname -a
> Linux myhost 5.15.0-91-generic #101-Ubuntu SMP Tue Nov 14 13:30:08 UTC 2023 
> x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> *#homes_restore   (line not in script)*
> #! /bin/sh
> . /root/duplicity/.passphrase
> export PASSPHRASE
> /usr/bin/duplicity --path-to-restore user                                       
>                                    \
> --encrypt-key "key"                                                             
>                                               \
> --log-file /var/log/duplicity/homes/restore/test-log-`date +%d-%b-%Y-%R-%Z`     
>         \
> rsync://myCreds.rsync.net <mailto:1160@usw-s001.rsync.net>:/shark/homes/        
>                                                               \
> /home/restore/
>  
> *#homes_backup   (line not in script)*
> #! /bin/sh
> . /root/duplicity/.passphrase
> export PASSPHRASE
>
> /usr/bin/duplicity                                                              
>                                                \
> --full-if-older-than 1M                                                         
>                                              \
> --encrypt-key "key"                                                             
>                                             \
> --log-file /var/log/duplicity/homes/backup/log-`date +%d-%b-%Y-%R-%Z`           
>        \
> /home/                                                                          
>                                                    \
> rsync://myCreds:/shark/homes/
>
> *Please point me in the right direction, I am unable to make any sense of the 
> following when I run restore, however the directory /home/restore/user does get 
> created. No files are restored.*
> root@host:~/duplicity# ./restore_homes &
> [1] 80262
> root@host:~/duplicity# No valid action found. Will imply 'restore' because url 
> source was given and target is a local path.
> Traceback (innermost last):
>    File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 62, in <module>
>      with_tempdir(main)
>    File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 53, in with_tempdir
>      fn()
>    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/duplicity/dup_main.py", line 1561, in 
> main
>      do_backup(action)
>    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/duplicity/dup_main.py", line 1577, in 
> do_backup
>      col_stats = dup_collections.CollectionsStatus(config.backend, 
> config.archive_dir_path, action).set_values()
>    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/duplicity/dup_collections.py", line 
> 803, in set_values
>      self.set_matched_chain_pair(local_sig_chains + remote_sig_chains, 
> backup_chains)
>    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/duplicity/dup_collections.py", line 
> 816, in set_matched_chain_pair
>      sig_chains = sig_chains and self.get_sorted_chains(sig_chains)
>    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/duplicity/dup_collections.py", line 
> 1031, in get_sorted_chains
>      assert len(chain_list) == 2
> AssertionError
>
> Traceback (innermost last):
>    File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 62, in <module>
>      with_tempdir(main)
>    File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 53, in with_tempdir
>      fn()
>    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/duplicity/dup_main.py", line 1561, in 
> main
>      do_backup(action)
>    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/duplicity/dup_main.py", line 1577, in 
> do_backup
>      col_stats = dup_collections.CollectionsStatus(config.backend, 
> config.archive_dir_path, action).set_values()
>    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/duplicity/dup_collections.py", line 
> 803, in set_values
>      self.set_matched_chain_pair(local_sig_chains + remote_sig_chains, 
> backup_chains)
>    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/duplicity/dup_collections.py", line 
> 816, in set_matched_chain_pair
>      sig_chains = sig_chains and self.get_sorted_chains(sig_chains)
>    File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/duplicity/dup_collections.py", line 
> 1031, in get_sorted_chains
>      assert len(chain_list) == 2
> AssertionError
>
>
> [1]+  Exit 30                 ./restore_homes
>
>
>
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