[Duplicity-tracker] [bug #25626] Need detection of wrong archive dir.

[David Abrahams]

URL:
  <http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?25626>

                 Summary: Need detection of wrong archive dir.
                 Project: duplicity
            Submitted by: bewst
            Submitted on: Wed 18 Feb 2009 07:42:32 AM GMT
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

I just spent two days wrestling with duplicity while it gave me cryptic
messages.  I think most of these messages were due to specifying the wrong
--archive-dir option (see https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?25623).  Duplicity
should store some unique identifier in archive directories that associates
them positively with a backup folder in the backend, and should give a helpful
error message when they don't match up.

More generally, as I googled about looking for answers, I saw a lot of people
in essentially my same boat: facing a cryptic error message that doesn't bear
any clear relationship to what the user needs to do to fix the problem.  So I
think a general pass over these errors is warranted.  You might just google
'duplicity traceback' to get an idea.

Thanks for otherwise great software!




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