Re: [Duplicity-talk] gmail?

[Kenneth Loafman]

Jay Dresser wrote:
> I'd have sworn that duplicity had support for gmail. 
> In fact I just deleted an old duplicity backup from gmail in prep for a full 
> backup.
> Now it fails when I run the (previously working) script:
> 
> User error detail: Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 826, in <module>
>     with_tempdir(main)
>   File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 819, in with_tempdir
>     fn()
>   File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 749, in main
>     action = commandline.ProcessCommandLine(sys.argv[1:])
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/duplicity/commandline.py", line 591, 
> in ProcessCommandLine
>     backup, local_pathname = set_backend(args[0], args[1])
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/duplicity/commandline.py", line 486, 
> in set_backend
>     backend1, backend2 = backend.get_backend(arg1), backend.get_backend(arg2)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/duplicity/backend.py", line 93, in 
> get_backend
>     raise UnsupportedBackendScheme(url_string)
> UnsupportedBackendScheme: scheme not supported in url: 
> gmail://<myusername>:<mypassword>@gmail.com/duplicity
> 
> I am running 0.5.17 installed  today.  (amd64,kubuntu,xfce)
> 
> Did you remove support for gmail?
> I can't even find anything in the docs about it.  

Specific support for gmail was replaced by the IMAP backend.  You'll
need to use imap:// instead of gmail://.  It's against gmail's TOS to
use it for backup and I did not want to support that.

...Thanks,
...Ken

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