[Duplicity-talk] Invalid File Name

[Damon Timm]

Hi -

I am new to duplicity and was just testing out my recent backups (so
this is just a "test problem" I get, and not a mission critical
problem - yet) ... anyway, I got this error and the restore aborted:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 583, in <module>
    with_tempdir(main)
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 577, in with_tempdir
    fn()
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 540, in main
    restore(col_stats)
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 300, in restore
    restore_get_patched_rop_iter(col_stats)):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/duplicity/patchdir.py", line
464, in Write_ROPaths
    ITR(ropath.index, ropath)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/duplicity/lazy.py", line 299,
in __call__
    last_branch.fast_process, args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/duplicity/robust.py", line
36, in check_common_error
    try: return function(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/duplicity/patchdir.py", line
512, in fast_process
    if ropath.exists(): ropath.copy(self.base_path.new_index(index))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/duplicity/path.py", line 404, in copy
    other.writefileobj(self.open("rb"))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/duplicity/path.py", line 564,
in writefileobj
    fout = self.open("wb")
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/duplicity/path.py", line 506, in open
    result = open(self.name, mode)
IOError: invalid filename:
/media/KINGSTON/duplicity-backup-1/damon/Documents/Finances/Taxes/2005/E-ZPass
10:2f21 to 11:2f20.pdf or mode: wb

I think this is because the file had a forward slash in the file name
... (hold over from some other OS, I think) ... seems maybe the ":2f"
is the way that linux is handling the forward slash (which is probably
illegal, I would guess) ... and duplicity is choking on that file ...
anyway, I am going to start searching for all of the miscreant files
and changing their names (and testing again), but I wanted to email
and see if this was expected from duplicity ...

Especially when I got the error trying to restore and not during
backup ... because, had I not checked, I would be sad.  (Also, it
looks like my iPhoto library has a lot of these "forward slashes" in
the file name ... hmm, might not be as easy to fix as I thought.)

Just curious if this is expected ... running duplicity 0.5.06

Damon