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

[Kenneth Loafman]

address@hidden wrote:
> 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/ /''

I'm not seeing the problem yet, so a couple more questions:

1) What happens if you run:
    $ ncftpls -F ftp://address@hidden:2121/
        - or -
    $ ncftpls -E ftp://address@hidden:2121/

2) Try running this:
    $ ncftp ftp://address@hidden:2121/
then attach the ~/.ncftp/trace file to your reply.

Do you know what the remote FTP server is?

...Thanks,
...Ken

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