Re: [Duplicity-talk] duplicity 0.6.18 on FreeBSD: missing gio module

[Tom Limoncelli]

Thanks for the feedback. Yes I have paramiko and pycrypto installed.

After more investigation I found the problem.  It turns out to be
unrelated to the warning about gio.  The problem is that the new
version of Duplicity does not read host aliases in ~/.ssh/config.
You'll see errors like:

BackendException: ssh connection to gspbackupservice:22 failed: [Errno
8] hostname nor servname provided, or not known

My backups are done to "gspbackupservice" which does not exist in DNS;
it is purely a host set up in ~/.ssh/config that directs the backups
to a certain machine on a certain port with a special key.

The workaround is to use the actual hostname.  However, that means I
can't control the keys and port numbers like I can with an alias.

I found http://www.saltycrane.com/blog/2010/02/python-paramiko-notes/
that shows how paramiko can be tuned to read config.

Can you consider this as a feature request?

Thanks!
Tom