Re: [Duplicity-talk] strange error when doing a backup

[edgar . soldin]

try deleting
  duplicity-inc.20160914T051918Z.to.20160916T051053Z.manifest.part
on the backend.

which backend did you use?

..ede/duply.net

On 08.10.2016 22:19, Scott Hannahs via Duplicity-talk wrote:
> Actually I am still getting a different error in the same module.  This is:
> Mac OS X 10.11.6.
> Python 2.7
> duplicity 0.7.10
> 
> I back up several directories as independent jobs, and this only happens for 
> one directory.  Of course it is the most important one!  And largest.  This 
> does not seem to be an issue with encoding and gpg but still fails at the 
> same line.  It looks like there is some access problem with the .cache files 
> but I have r/w access to the directories and all files.
> 
> 
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/sw/bin/duplicity", line 1546, in <module>
>     with_tempdir(main)
>   File "/sw/bin/duplicity", line 1540, in with_tempdir
>     fn()
>   File "/sw/bin/duplicity", line 1391, in main
>     do_backup(action)
>   File "/sw/bin/duplicity", line 1416, in do_backup
>     globals.archive_dir).set_values()
>   File "/sw/lib/python2.7/site-packages/duplicity/collections.py", line 710, 
> in set_values
>     self.get_backup_chains(partials + backend_filename_list)
>   File "/sw/lib/python2.7/site-packages/duplicity/collections.py", line 836, 
> in get_backup_chains
>     add_to_sets(f)
>   File "/sw/lib/python2.7/site-packages/duplicity/collections.py", line 824, 
> in add_to_sets
>     if set.add_filename(filename):
>   File "/sw/lib/python2.7/site-packages/duplicity/collections.py", line 101, 
> in add_filename
>     self.set_manifest(filename)
>   File "/sw/lib/python2.7/site-packages/duplicity/collections.py", line 136, 
> in set_manifest
>     remote_filename)
> AssertionError: 
> ('duplicity-inc.20160914T051918Z.to.20160916T051053Z.manifest.part', 
> 'duplicity-inc.20160914T051918Z.to.20160916T051053Z.manifest.gpg’)
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On Sep 23, 2016, at 10:54 AM, John Covici via Duplicity-talk 
>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Well, I did some experimenting and exporting LANG=en_US.UTF-8 not only
>> fixed the preferredencoding, but the gpg error disappeared as well and
>> the backup ran.
>>
>> Thanks for giving me the hint about the encoding -- I really
>> appreciate the help.
>>
>> On Fri, 23 Sep 2016 09:32:12 -0400,
>> John Covici via Duplicity-talk wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks for your quick response.
>>>
>>> I get  'US-ASCII'  I wonder how to changeto unicode?
>>>
>>> On Fri, 23 Sep 2016 09:02:40 -0400,
>>> Kenneth Loafman wrote:
>>>>
>>>> [1  <text/plain; UTF-8 (7bit)>]
>>>> [2  <text/html; UTF-8 (quoted-printable)>]
>>>> This is actually two levels of error.  The traceback is because Python 
>>>> can't decode the gpg error.  The real error is in gpg itself, but we can't 
>>>> see it because the decode error is triggering while trying to report the 
>>>> gpg error.
>>>>
>>>> So, what is the encoding on your Mac?  You can find out what Python thinks 
>>>> it is by doing this
>>>>
>>>> $ python2
>>>> Python 2.7.12 (default, Jun 29 2016, 14:05:02) 
>>>> [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 7.3.0 (clang-703.0.31)] on darwin
>>>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>>>>> import locale
>>>>>>> locale.getpreferredencoding()
>>>> 'UTF-8'
>>>>
>>>> That's the first level.  After we get that fixed, we'll see the gpg error 
>>>> message itself on the next run.
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 7:25 AM, John Covici via Duplicity-talk 
>>>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I am trying to do a backup  using duplicity 7.10 on a Mac operating
>>>> system 10.11.6.  I am getting the following error which I don't
>>>> understand what to do with:
>>>> After adding all the incremental backup sets, I get
>>>> Last full backup date: Wed May  4 17:14:16 2016
>>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>>  File "/opt/local/bin/duplicity", line 1546, in <module>
>>>>    with_tempdir(main)
>>>>  File "/opt/local/bin/duplicity", line 1540, in with_tempdir
>>>>    fn()
>>>>  File "/opt/local/bin/duplicity", line 1391, in main
>>>>    do_backup(action)
>>>>  File "/opt/local/bin/duplicity", line 1521, in do_backup
>>>>    check_last_manifest(col_stats)  # not needed for full backup
>>>>  File "/opt/local/bin/duplicity", line 1222, in check_last_manifest
>>>>    last_backup_set.check_manifests()
>>>>  File 
>>>> "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/duplicity/collections.py",
>>>>  line 199, in check_manifests
>>>>    remote_manifest = self.get_remote_manifest()
>>>>  File 
>>>> "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/duplicity/collections.py",
>>>>  line 234, in get_remote_manifest
>>>>    manifest_buffer = self.backend.get_data(self.remote_manifest_name)
>>>>  File 
>>>> "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/duplicity/backend.py",
>>>>  line 679, in get_data
>>>>    assert not fin.close()
>>>>  File 
>>>> "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/duplicity/dup_temp.py",
>>>>  line 226, in close
>>>>    assert not self.fileobj.close()
>>>>  File 
>>>> "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/duplicity/gpg.py",
>>>>  line 259, in close
>>>>    self.gpg_failed()
>>>>  File 
>>>> "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/duplicity/gpg.py",
>>>>  line 223, in gpg_failed
>>>>    msg += unicode(line.strip(), locale.getpreferredencoding(), 'replace') 
>>>> + u"\n"
>>>> LookupError: unknown encoding:
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas as to how to fix this error would be appreciated.
> 
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