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[Kenneth Loafman <kenneth@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Look in the file duplicity/backends/ftpbackend.py to see how we handle
ncftp.  I guess you'll have to find a way to tell ncftp to change dirs
first.  I'm not sure that's going to work.  Login is done by ncftpput, so
it'll have to do the cd for you.  Each put is a new connection.



On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 12:21 PM, gobbo <
question250357@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Question #250357 on Duplicity changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/duplicity/+question/250357
>
>     Status: Answered => Open
>
> gobbo is still having a problem:
> ok, I'll try to clarify:
> My FTP server is on my internet router, my machine is a ubuntu server
> running duplicity.
> >From the machine, I can call "ftp" in the terminal and login to the FTP
> server.
> Now when I am logged in, I am in the "root" directory of the FTP server.
> From there, I am not able to upload files to a subdirectory. But I can
> first cd to the subdirectory and then upload the file.
> That's strange and probably the fault of the FTP server.
> The NcFTP is always just logging in and trying to upload from there to a
> subdir which can be seen in the log:
> > ncftpput serverbak/duplicity-full.20140617T120904Z.vol1.difftar.gpg:
> server said: Permission denied.
> So eventually my guess is that I "just" need to find the place (in the
> code) where duplicity is logging in and add a "cd serverbak" or the like
> there, and omit the directory in the ftp://...-location.
> Hope it became a little more clear, and thanks again for your help :)
>
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