Re: [Duplicity-talk] Just starting with duplicity

[Kenneth Loafman]

Dan wrote:
> i have tried all of the formats suggested and since the etc directory is
> being created on the target I assume the connection is being made at some
> level.  thanks for the help on this.
> 
> dan
> ----------
> 
> sandbox:~# duplicity /etc ftp://address@hidden:address@hidden/etc
> GnuPG passphrase:
> No signatures found, switching to full backup.
> Retype passphrase to confirm:
> ncftpput etc/duplicity-full.2009-01-08T10:51:37-08:00.vol1.difftar.gpg:
> server said: The name you specified is not allowed.
> Running 'ncftpput -f /tmp/duplicity-iNzqxu-tempdir/mkstemp-k2sJVp-1 -F -t
> 30 -m -V -C '/tmp/duplicity-iNzqxu-tempdir/mktemp-Rb7sL_-3'
> 'etc/duplicity-full.2009-01-08T10:51:37-08:00.vol1.difftar.gpg'' failed
> (attempt #1)
> ncftpput etc/duplicity-full.2009-01-08T10:51:37-08:00.vol1.difftar.gpg:
> server said: The name you specified is not allowed.
> Running 'ncftpput -f /tmp/duplicity-iNzqxu-tempdir/mkstemp-k2sJVp-1 -F -t
> 30 -m -V -C '/tmp/duplicity-iNzqxu-tempdir/mktemp-Rb7sL_-3'
> 'etc/duplicity-full.2009-01-08T10:51:37-08:00.vol1.difftar.gpg'' failed
> (attempt #2)
> ncftpput etc/duplicity-full.2009-01-08T10:51:37-08:00.vol1.difftar.gpg:
> server said: The name you specified is not allowed.
> Running 'ncftpput -f /tmp/duplicity-iNzqxu-tempdir/mkstemp-k2sJVp-1 -F -t
> 30 -m -V -C '/tmp/duplicity-iNzqxu-tempdir/mktemp-Rb7sL_-3'
> 'etc/duplicity-full.2009-01-08T10:51:37-08:00.vol1.difftar.gpg'' failed
> (attempt #3)
> ncftpput etc/duplicity-full.2009-01-08T10:51:37-08:00.vol1.difftar.gpg:
> server said: The name you specified is not allowed.
> Running 'ncftpput -f /tmp/duplicity-iNzqxu-tempdir/mkstemp-k2sJVp-1 -F -t
> 30 -m -V -C '/tmp/duplicity-iNzqxu-tempdir/mktemp-Rb7sL_-3'
> 'etc/duplicity-full.2009-01-08T10:51:37-08:00.vol1.difftar.gpg'' failed
> (attempt #4)
> ncftpput etc/duplicity-full.2009-01-08T10:51:37-08:00.vol1.difftar.gpg:
> server said: The name you specified is not allowed.
> Running 'ncftpput -f /tmp/duplicity-iNzqxu-tempdir/mkstemp-k2sJVp-1 -F -t
> 30 -m -V -C '/tmp/duplicity-iNzqxu-tempdir/mktemp-Rb7sL_-3'
> 'etc/duplicity-full.2009-01-08T10:51:37-08:00.vol1.difftar.gpg'' failed
> (attempt #5)
> Giving up trying to execute 'ncftpput -f
> /tmp/duplicity-iNzqxu-tempdir/mkstemp-k2sJVp-1 -F -t 30 -m -V -C
> '/tmp/duplicity-iNzqxu-tempdir/mktemp-Rb7sL_-3'
> 'etc/duplicity-full.2009-01-08T10:51:37-08:00.vol1.difftar.gpg'' after 5
> attempts
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 522, in <module>
>     with_tempdir(main)
>   File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 516, in with_tempdir
>     fn()
>   File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 507, in main
>     full_backup(col_stats)
>   File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 209, in full_backup
>     bytes_written = write_multivol("full", tarblock_iter, globals.backend)
>   File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 149, in write_multivol
>     bytes_written += waiter()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/duplicity/asyncscheduler.py",
> line 154, in __run_synchronously
>     ret = fn(*params)
>   File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 143, in <lambda>
>     async_waiters.append(io_scheduler.schedule_task(lambda tdp,
> dest_filename: put(tdp, dest_filename),
>   File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 97, in put
>     backend.put(tdp, dest_filename)
>   File
> "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/duplicity/backends/ftpbackend.py",
> line 81, in put
>     self.run_command_persist(commandline)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/duplicity/backend.py", line 231,
> in run_command_persist
>     raise BackendException("Error running '%s'" % private)
> duplicity.errors.BackendException: Error running 'ncftpput -f
> /tmp/duplicity-iNzqxu-tempdir/mkstemp-k2sJVp-1 -F -t 30 -m -V -C
> '/tmp/duplicity-iNzqxu-tempdir/mktemp-Rb7sL_-3'
> 'etc/duplicity-full.2009-01-08T10:51:37-08:00.vol1.difftar.gpg''

Try the option --time-separator="_" (that's an underscore) since it
seems you're going to a Windows based server: "server said: The name you
specified is not allowed.".  This only happens on Windows based servers.

...Ken

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