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[Bug 1422289] Re: Backup failed with duplicity assertion error

 

Up until about a month ago, I was backing up successfully to my USB
drive. Now Backups fails with an error box.

With Ubuntu 14.04, fully updated to today, I get a similar error as son
as I click 'Back Up Now':

Backup Failed
Failed with unknown error
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1494, in <module>
    with_tempdir(main)
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1488, in with_tempdir
    fn()
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1337, in main
    do_backup(action)
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1366, in do_backup
    sync_archive(decrypt)
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1100, in sync_archive
    remote_metafiles, ignored, rem_needpass = get_metafiles(remlist)
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 992, in get_metafiles
    pr = file_naming.parse(fn)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/file_naming.py", line 389, in parse
    pr = check_full()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/file_naming.py", line 308, in check_full
    t = str2time((m1 or m2).group("time"), short)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/file_naming.py", line 281, in str2time
    t = dup_time.genstrtotime(timestr.upper())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/dup_time.py", line 278, in genstrtotime
    return override_curtime - intstringtoseconds(timestr)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/dup_time.py", line 190, in intstringtoseconds
    error()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/dup_time.py", line 181, in error
    raise TimeException(bad_interval_string % interval_string)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe6 in position 15: ordinal not in range(128)

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Title:
  Backup failed with duplicity assertion error

Status in deja-dup package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I have configured deja-dup to backup to an S3 folder and recently all
  backups are failing with this error:

  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1500, in <module>
      with_tempdir(main)
    File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1494, in with_tempdir
      fn()
    File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1327, in main
      action = commandline.ProcessCommandLine(sys.argv[1:])
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/commandline.py", line 1047, in ProcessCommandLine
      globals.backend = backend.get_backend(args[0])
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/backend.py", line 221, in get_backend
      obj = get_backend_object(url_string)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/backend.py", line 207, in get_backend_object
      return factory(pu)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/backends/_boto_single.py", line 161, in __init__
      self.resetConnection()
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/backends/_boto_single.py", line 183, in resetConnection
      self.conn = get_connection(self.scheme, self.parsed_url, self.storage_uri)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/backends/_boto_single.py", line 97, in get_connection
      assert scheme == 's3'
  AssertionError

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
  Package: deja-dup 32.0-0ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.18.0-13.14-generic 3.18.5
  Uname: Linux 3.18.0-13-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.16.1-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Mon Feb 16 10:48:38 2015
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-01-09 (37 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Alpha amd64 (20150109)
  SourcePackage: deja-dup
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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