Re: [Duplicity-talk] cannot restore encrypted backup

[edgar . soldin]

i am surprised duplicity backs up for you w/ gpg 2.1 .. gpg changed some stuff 
and you should need extra parameters for it to work properly (maybe just for 
decrypting though). check here
 http://sourceforge.net/p/ftplicity/bugs/76/

do you use duply or plain duplicity?

..ede/duply.net

On 29.07.2015 11:34, address@hidden wrote:
> Dear Edger,
> 
> thank you for the quick reply! I was able to encrypt and decrypt a file using 
> the given key.
> 
> The key was greated with GnuPG 1.4 but now I am using 2.1. The version of 
> Duplicity is 0.6.25.
> 
> Best regards,
> Mate
> 
> 2015.07.29 11:21 időpontban address@hidden ezt írta:
>> On 29.07.2015 11:05, address@hidden wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I know it might be a GnuPG issue but I sincerely hope that someone on this 
>>> list might have a solution for me. :)
>>>
>>> So I am trying to restore an ecrypted backup and receives the following 
>>> error:
>>>
>>> GPGError: GPG Failed, see log below:
>>> ===== Begin GnuPG log =====
>>> gpg: encrypted with 4096-bit RSA key, ID xxxxx, created 2011-02-24
>>> "xxxx <address@hidden>"
>>> gpg: public key decryption failed: Invalid IPC response
>>> gpg: decryption failed: No secret key
>>> ===== End GnuPG log =====
>>>
>>> The key is in the user's keyring, at least the gpg --list-secret-keys shows 
>>> the ID. The password seems to be right beacuse I am using this key to 
>>> encrypt my weekly backups. Does anyone have any suggestion on this? I am 
>>> not really familiar with GnuPG.
>>>
>>
>> ok,
>>
>> first try manually en/decrypting something on the command line against
>> that key. see
>>  http://www.dewinter.com/gnupg_howto/english/GPGMiniHowto-4.html#ss4.1
>>
>> also,
>> 1. what is your gpg version?
>> 2. please send me the output of 'gpg --list-secret-keys' privately and
>> mention the keyid you effectively used to back up.
>>
>> ..ede/duply.net
>>
>>