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[Kenneth Loafman <kenneth@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Derek Kozikowski <
question192331@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> New question #192331 on Duplicity:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/duplicity/+question/192331
>
> Greetings,
> I am attempting to clean out some of my older backups using the duplicity
> remove-older-than command, but I'm getting an exception.  I am using Ubuntu
> 10.04 and duplicity 0.6.18.  The command and stack trace follow:
>
>
> $ sudo duplicity remove-older-than 1Y --force "file:///media/EZ BUS
> DT/MachineName/DuplicityBackups/home_backup"
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/local/bin/duplicity", line 1236, in <module>
>    with_tempdir(main)
>  File "/usr/local/bin/duplicity", line 1229, in with_tempdir
>    fn()
>  File "/usr/local/bin/duplicity", line 1115, in main
>    action = commandline.ProcessCommandLine(sys.argv[1:])
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/duplicity/commandline.py", line
> 975, in ProcessCommandLine
>    args = parse_cmdline_options(cmdline_list)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/duplicity/commandline.py", line
> 592, in parse_cmdline_options
>    globals.remove_time = dup_time.genstrtotime(arg)
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/duplicity/dup_time.py", line 278,
> in genstrtotime
>    return override_curtime - intstringtoseconds(timestr)
> TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for -: 'NoneType' and 'int'
>
> I tried replacing 1Y with 365D with the same result.  Is this something as
> silly as the order of my options, or a real bug?
>
> Thanks!


Did you use '365 D' or '365D'?  '1 Y' would not work because of the space.
 See TIME FORMATS in the man page.

...Ken