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Question #143932 on Duplicity changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/duplicity/+question/143932

    Status: Open => Answered

edso proposed the following answer:
Your using the wrong application ;). Duplicity's source has to a be
local filessystem, remote sources are not supported. You might however
want to try a ftpfs based approach. I personally mount some smaller
sources with sshfs before some backups.

ede/duply.net

On 03.02.2011 13:31, Carlos Franke wrote:
> New question #143932 on Duplicity:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/duplicity/+question/143932
> 
> Hi!
> 
> 
> This might be trivial, but I can not figure out how to do a backup from a remote source to a local target with duplicity.
> 
> 
> When I simply do:
> 
> FTP_PASSWORD=xyz duplicity --no-encryption ftp://my.ftp/myfolder /my/local/backup/folder/
> 
> duplicity assumes I want to restore a backup from remote to local and then fails to do so due to the lack of any existing backups:
> 
> NcFTP version is 3.2.5
> Local and Remote metadata are synchronized, no sync needed.
> Last full backup date: none
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1245, in <module>
>     with_tempdir(main)
>   File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1238, in with_tempdir
>     fn()
>   File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1192, in main
>     restore(col_stats)
>   File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 539, in restore
>     restore_get_patched_rop_iter(col_stats)):
>   File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 561, in restore_get_patched_rop_iter
>     backup_chain = col_stats.get_backup_chain_at_time(time)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/duplicity/collections.py", line 939, in get_backup_chain_at_time
>     raise CollectionsError("No backup chains found")
> CollectionsError: No backup chains found
> 
> 
> When I explicitely specify "incremental" or "full" like:
> 
> FTP_PASSWORD=xyz duplicity --no-encryption ftp://my.ftp/myfolder /my/local/backup/folder/
> 
> I get a "command line error: "--incremental option cannot be used when restoring or verifying"
> 
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
>

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