[Duplicity-talk] AttributeError: 'unicode' object has no attribute 'decode'

[Joel Carter]

Hi there.

Attempting to get my duplicity backups going through S3 now instead of
rsync. Upgraded from working 0.5.01 compiled from source to packages
installed from EPEL (this is CentOS 4.8):

Nov 30 23:12:17 Installed: python-GnuPGInterface.noarch 0.3.2-2.el4
Nov 30 23:12:17 Installed: ncftp.i386 2:3.2.2-1.el4
Nov 30 23:12:17 Installed: python-boto.noarch 1.0a-1.el4.1
Nov 30 23:12:21 Installed: librsync.i386 0.9.7-11.el4
Nov 30 23:12:22 Installed: duplicity.i386 0.6.05-1.el4

Ran one full backup successfully and now trying to run an incremental
but getting the following error message:

Reading filelist /root/svn/lion/backup-excludes
Sorting filelist /root/svn/lion/backup-excludes
Local and Remote metadata are synchronized, no sync needed.
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1241, in ?
   with_tempdir(main)
 File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1234, in with_tempdir
   fn()
 File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1139, in main
   globals.archive_dir).set_values()
 File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/duplicity/collections.py",
line 672, in set_values
   (backup_chains, self.orphaned_backup_sets,
 File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/duplicity/collections.py",
line 816, in get_backup_chains
   map(add_to_sets, filename_list)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/duplicity/collections.py",
line 810, in add_to_sets
   log.Debug(_("File %s is not part of a known set; creating new
set") % (filename,))
 File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/duplicity/log.py", line 73, in Debug
   Log(s, DEBUG)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/duplicity/log.py", line 65, in Log
   _logger.log(DupToLoggerLevel(verb_level), s.decode("utf8", "ignore"))
AttributeError: 'unicode' object has no attribute 'decode'

Figured maybe it was because I didn't have a new enough Python, but
"Python 2.3.4" should be adequate looking in the README.

Any tips you have would be appreciated!

Thanks! Joel.