Re: [Duplicity-talk] connect failed: Invalid argument.

[can_man]

Dear Ken,

thank you for your answer.

> address@hidden wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I am getting the following error:
> > 
> > address@hidden duplicity-0.5.17]$ FTP_PASSWORD=xxxxxx
> > /usr/bin/duplicity /usr/local/  ftp://address@hidden:2121/backup/ 
> > NcFTP version is 3.2.2 connect failed: Invalid argument. connect
> > failed: Invalid argument. connect failed: Invalid argument. Running
> > 'ncftpls -f /tmp/duplicity-QkE_hG-tempdir/mkstemp-dbsEHg-1 -F -t 30
> > -o useCLNT=0,useHELP_SITE=0  -P '2121' -l
> > 'ftp://localhost:2121/backup/'' failed (attempt #1)
> > 
> > It would be great if someone could shine some light on the "Invalid
> > argument" error.
> > 
> > A little more about my setup. I am using a ssh tunnel to get to the
> > main host of my webserver and from there I go to the ftp server.
> > Manually everything works, i.e. I can login to the server via the
> > tunnel. Also, if I supply the wrong password to dulicity I get a
> > wrong password error - so the connection is working.
> 
> You'll need to run this with a -v9 for us to find out what's going on.
> The "connect failed: Invalid argument" message is coming from FTP, so we
> need to see exactly what the command is and what's going on at the time.
> 
> Have you succeeded in running duplicity this way before, or is this a
> new attempt on this service?
> 

This is my first attempt. The output with -v9 is as follows.

[backup@ Server  root]$ FTP_PASSWORD=xxxxxx /usr/bin/duplicity -v9 /usr/local/  
 ftp://address@hidden:2121/ /
NcFTP version is 3.2.2
Using temporary directory /tmp/duplicity-yU55pR-tempdir
Registering (mkstemp) temporary file 
/tmp/duplicity-yU55pR-tempdir/mkstemp-9K8IEX-1
Main action: inc
/usr/bin/python 2.4.3 (#1, Jan 21 2009, 01:11:33) 
[GCC 4.1.2 20071124 (Red Hat 4.1.2-42)]
duplicity 0.5.17 (May 04, 2009)
Linux  Server  2.6.21.7-xxxx-xen0-ipv6-64 #3 SMP Thu Apr 30 11:04:04 EDT 2009 
x86_64 x86_64
Registering (mkstemp) temporary file 
/tmp/duplicity-yU55pR-tempdir/mkstemp-S9uI_Y-2
Temp has 1147232256 available, backup will use approx 34078720.
Reading results of 'ncftpls -f /tmp/duplicity-yU55pR-tempdir/mkstemp-9K8IEX-1 
-F -t 30 -o useCLNT=0,useHELP_SITE=0  -P '2121' -l 'ftp://localhost:2121/ /''
connect failed: Invalid argument.
connect failed: Invalid argument.
connect failed: Invalid argument.
Running 'ncftpls -f /tmp/duplicity-yU55pR-tempdir/mkstemp-9K8IEX-1 -F -t 30 -o 
useCLNT=0,useHELP_SITE=0  -P '2121' -l 'ftp://localhost:2121/ /'' failed 
(attempt #1)
Reading results of 'ncftpls -f /tmp/duplicity-yU55pR-tempdir/mkstemp-9K8IEX-1 
-F -t 30 -o useCLNT=0,useHELP_SITE=0  -P '2121' -l 'ftp://localhost:2121/ /''



Thank you very much for your help.
Phil

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