Re: [Duplicity-talk] problems trying to use par2

[John Covici]

Its 0.7.12. par2 command not mentioned.
On Mon, 08 May 2017 08:14:45 -0400,
edgar.soldin--- via Duplicity-talk wrote:
> 
> maybe your duplicity is simply old ;)? ..ede/duply.net
> 
> On 08.05.2017 13:17, John Covici wrote:
> > Thanks, the par2 command line was not mentioned in the  local manpage
> > as well.  I will see if I can figure out a patch for that.
> > 
> > edgar.soldin--- via Duplicity-talk wrote:
> >>
> >> right,
> >>
> >> http://duplicity.nongnu.org/duplicity.1.html#sect30
> >> lists the command line binary 'par2cmdline' but not pexpect, probably 
> >> because it is usually a dependency by the distro's packaging as it is 
> >> needed for pexpect+ssh://, the legacy ssh backend.
> >>
> >> how about providing a patch for the manpage ;) adding the pexpect line. it 
> >> is already there for pexpect ssh?
> >>
> >> ..ede/duply.net
> >>
> >> On 08.05.2017 12:36, John Covici wrote:
> >>> Thanks all for your response.
> >>>
> >>> OK, that makes sense -- I wish the requirements were in the man page
> >>> -- would have saved me a lot of fooling around.
> >>>
> >>> there is also a package libpar2 -- do I need this as well?
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, 08 May 2017 06:22:14 -0400,
> >>> edgar.soldin--- via Duplicity-talk wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> John,
> >>>>
> >>>> A.
> >>>> wrt. to the first issue.. i am pretty sure that you cannot start using 
> >>>> par2 backend just within a chain. it will try to download the par2 files 
> >>>> for the existing chain, which obviously were never created, so a missing 
> >>>> resource exception sounds only natural.
> >>>> solution: start a new chain by creating a new full.
> >>>>
> >>>> B.
> >>>>> Attempt 2 failed. ExceptionPexpect: The command was not found or was
> >>>>> not executable: par2.
> >>>> make sure that you have par2 installed. it is a command line binary eg. 
> >>>> like gpg. them make sure it is in PATH environment and can be executed 
> >>>> by running 'par2' on the command line.
> >>>>
> >>>> ..ede/duply.net
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On 08.05.2017 11:05, John Covici via Duplicity-talk wrote:
> >>>>> Well, I now know that I am using pexpect 4.2.1, and so I tried it on a
> >>>>> full backup to see if it would work any better.  It kept saying things
> >>>>> like
> >>>>> Making directory /tmp/duplicity-29_4Gr-tempdir/duplicity_temp.7
> >>>>> Create Par2 recovery files
> >>>>> Attempt 2 failed. ExceptionPexpect: The command was not found or was
> >>>>> not executable: par2.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I do have version 4.2.1 of pexpect installed.  Am I doing something
> >>>>> wrong or is par2 just broken?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Sun, 07 May 2017 04:43:17 -0400,
> >>>>> Bach, Matthias wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Hi John,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> • Which version of Duplicity are you using?
> >>>>>> • Has it worked without the par2 backend?
> >>>>>> • Which version of the azure-storage package are you using?
> >>>>>>
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> >>>>>> Matthias
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> >>>>>> Am 06.05.17, 09:23 schrieb "Duplicity-talk im Auftrag von John Covici 
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> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>     Hi.  I am using asure as my backup and I decided to try using par2 
> >>>>>> to
> >>>>>>     gain some redundancy.  I just started to use it on an incremental
> >>>>>>     backup, and if it works use it on the next full one.
> >>>>>>     
> >>>>>>     Now two things happened.  It wanted a module called pexpect which 
> >>>>>> was
> >>>>>>     not there, but I found and installed the module.
> >>>>>>     
> >>>>>>     Then I got the following instead of a backup.
> >>>>>>     
> >>>>>>     Added incremental Backupset (start_time: Thu May  4 03:01:00 2017 /
> >>>>>>     end_time: Fri May  5 03:01:08 2017)
> >>>>>>     Last full backup date: Sat Oct 15 03:49:55 2016
> >>>>>>     Making directory /tmp/duplicity-vE26jR-tempdir/duplicity_temp.1
> >>>>>>     Deleting tree /tmp/duplicity-vE26jR-tempdir/duplicity_temp.1
> >>>>>>     Deleting
> >>>>>>     
> >>>>>> /tmp/duplicity-vE26jR-tempdir/duplicity_temp.1/duplicity-inc.20170504T070100Z.to.20170505T070108Z.manifest.gpg.par2
> >>>>>>     Deleting /tmp/duplicity-vE26jR-tempdir/duplicity_temp.1
> >>>>>>     Giving up after 1 attempts. AzureMissingResourceHttpError: The
> >>>>>>     specified blob does not exist.
> >>>>>>     
> >>>>>>     Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
> >>>>>>     
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