[Duplicity-talk] problem with ssh backend in 0.6.16

[Kilian Lackhove]

Hello,

ive just upgraded to duplicity 0.6.16 which broke the ssh backend for me:

$ /usr/local/bin$ /usr/bin/duplicity remove-older-than 1M -v 9
--encrypt-key yyy --sign-key yyy
ssh://address@hidden/users/xxx/duplicity/etc/

(snip)
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duplicity 0.6.16 (October 16, 2011)
Args: /usr/bin/duplicity remove-older-than 1M -v 9 --encrypt-key yyy
--sign-key yyy ssh://address@hidden/users/xxx/duplicity/etc/
Linux rechenknecht 3.1.1-1-ck #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Nov 12 06:26:40 EST
2011 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) II X3 440 Processor
/usr/bin/python2 2.7.2 (default, Jun 29 2011, 11:10:00)
[GCC 4.6.1]
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Running 'sftp  -oServerAliveInterval=15 -oServerAliveCountMax=2
address@hidden' (attempt #1)
State = sftp, Before = 'Connected to sftp.hidrive.strato.com.'
sftp command: 'mkdir "users"'
State = sftp, Before = 'mkdir "users"
Couldn't create directory:'
Invalid SSH password

It seems like duplicity wants to create the dir "users" even though it
already exists. As a workaround i changed line 287 in sshbackend.py
from mkdir_commands += ["mkdir \"%s\"" % (d)] + ["cd \"%s\"" % (d)] to
mkdir_commands += ["cd \"%s\"" % (d)] which solved the problem for me.
Of course that breaks the creating of non-existent dirs, so dont
consider  this a patch ;)

If you need any further information, im happy to help.

crabman