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Question #228587 on Duplicity changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/duplicity/+question/228587

    Status: Open => Answered

edso proposed the following answer:
On 10.05.2013 14:06, Henrik wrote:
> New question #228587 on Duplicity:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/duplicity/+question/228587
> 
> I'm writing a shell script to handle the backup of one of our servers. I'm creating an error_handler that I want to call when a duplicity call fails or crashes, but I'm unable to find this out by checking the exit status of a duplicity run since it always seems to return 0. If it succeeds, if it fails because of incorrect params, if it crashes / throws an exception during execution, it always returns 0.
> 
> The way I'm currently trying to check this is by doing,
> 
> duplicity --force /root $REMOTE/$REMOTEBASEDIR/root
> if [ $? != 0 ]; then
> ..
> 
> $? is always 0. How can I see if it has failed/crashed?
> 

what's your duplicity version?

can you give an example with console output where duplicity fails with a
success exit code (0) ?

..ede/duply.net

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