Re: [Duplicity-talk] (no subject)

[Kenneth Loafman]

Ingrid Lohmann wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Sorry for asking you again. I'd like to give to additional informaiton, 
> because I'm
> really desparately looking for a solution.
> 
> I used to backup files from a production server (root server) to backup 
> server (root server)  with the following script:
> 
> !/bin/bash
> export PASSPHRASE=signtest
> duplicity --encrypt-key "mykey" --sign-key "mykey" --exclude /sys  --exclude 
> /root  --exclude /proc --exclude /mnt --exclude /tmp  -v9 /  
> scp://address@hidden//root/backups/duplicity
> 
> Now the data which was on the production server is lost. I want to restore 
> the data on second production server with the following command:
> 
> duplicity  --encrypt-key "mykey" --sign-key "mykey"  --file-to-restore    
> root/duplicity/backuptest -v9  scp://address@hidden//root/backups/duplicity 
> ~/test
> 
> and the error message is: 
> 
 > the line "gpg: decryption failed: secret key not available" seems odd
to me, because I encrypted with the same key.
>  Can you help me to find a way to decrypt the data?
> Is it maybe possible to decrypt a gpg-File manually with shell command.

You probably need to add --ssh-askpass to the commandline (yes, even
with PASSPHRASE set).  The default is to not look for the passphrase
when using SSH for backup, but for restore, you do need a passphrase.

...Ken

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