Re: [Duplicity-talk] duplicity don't run under cygwin

[Ralph Lehmann]

Hi Kenneth! :-)

Kenneth Loafman schrieb:
> If you are running against a local folder, why use ssh?  

It was a test in preparation for remote usage.

> The file: 
> protocol will be much faster, i.e. file:///test/bar.

See above. Speed does not the most important criterion in this
situation. But here's the output of duplicity using the file protocol:
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$ duplicity -v9 --no-encrypt /test/foo file:///test/bar >
/cygdrive/x/error.log
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 378, in <module>
    if __name__ == "__main__": main()
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 354, in main
    globals.archive_dir).set_values()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/duplicity/collections.py", line
403, in set_values
    backend_filename_list = self.backend.list()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/duplicity/backends.py", line
261, in list
    return self.remote_pathdir.listdir()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/duplicity/path.py", line 433,
in listdir
    return os.listdir(self.name)
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/test/bar'
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> If not, then try this; drop the :22 at the end of the IP address and let 
> me know if that works.  22 is the default ssh port.

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$ duplicity --no-encrypt -v9 /test/foo \
ssh://address@hidden/test/bar/
Main action: inc
Reading results of 'printf 'cd test/bar/
ls -1' | sftp -oPort=22 -b - address@hidden'
Couldn't canonicalise: No such file or directory
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 378, in <module>
    if __name__ == "__main__": main()
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 354, in main
    globals.archive_dir).set_values()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/duplicity/collections.py", line
403, in set_values
    backend_filename_list = self.backend.list()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/duplicity/backends.py", line
319, in list
    l = self.popen(commandline).split('\n')[2:] # omit sftp prompts
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/duplicity/backends.py", line
168, in popen
    raise BackendException("Error running '%s'" % commandline)
duplicity.backends.BackendException: Error running 'printf 'cd test/bar/
ls -1' | sftp -oPort=22 -b - address@hidden'
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Thanks and ciao,

Ralph