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[Question #295948]: Failed backups: /etc/.pwd.lock

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From: DiagonalArg <question295948@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2016 07:37:30 -0000
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New question #295948 on Duplicity:
https://answers.launchpad.net/duplicity/+question/295948

Since July 1, my daily duplicity backups have been failing.  I back up home & /etc to a directory on a second disk attached to the same machine.  The latter directory (/etc) has always had some files that could not be accessed, and those files were reported on completion of the backup.  Now something new is happening.  After  a long backup run, I get a popup window saying:

BACKUP FAILED

Error accessing possibly locked file /etc/.pwd.lock

Checking that file, I find that it's been around since April.  Since I can not exclude single files, but only directories, I'm finding myself stuck.  Do you have any ideas about what's going on?

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