Re: [Duplicity-talk] 0.4.3.RC11 Ready for Test

[Ralph Lehmann]

Kenneth Loafman schrieb:
> Ralph Lehmann wrote:
>> Kenneth Loafman schrieb:
>>> Ralph Lehmann wrote:
>>>> Hello!
>>>>
>>>> Kenneth Loafman schrieb:
>>>>> New in v0.4.3.RC11 (2007/07/20)
>>>> Is it planned to migrate duplicity to cygwin on windows? This should not
>>>> be a enormous effort, only the ":" in the names of archives have to
>>>> replace with an other character. See rdiff-backup. :-)
>>> Duplicity should run on cygwin now.  It just needs the --short-filenames
>>> option.  
>> 
>> There are still some problems remaining:
>> Duplicity runs only with the file-option and without encrypted files:
>> -----------------------------------------
>> $ duplicity --short-filenames
>> /cygdrive/c/cygwin/home/Administrator/dup-test/
>> file:///cygdrive/c/cygwin/home/Administrator/dup-b/
>> GnuPG passphrase:
>> Retype to confirm:
> 
> This is the prompt for the encryption password.  What do you mean
> 'without encrypted files'?

Sorry. It runs only with the option "--no-encryption"

>> No signatures found, switching to full backup.
[...]
>> OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
> 
> There is a missing file.  Does your target directory exist?

Of course.
----------------------------------------
address@hidden ~
$ ssh 192.168.242.134
Last login: Mon Jul 23 19:31:26 2007 from 192.168.242.134

address@hidden ~
$ ls /cygdrive/c/cygwin/home/Administrator/dup-test/
Winter1.tif
----------------------------------------

>> IOError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe
>> close failed: [Errno 32] Broken pipe
> 
> The broken pipe was caused by the missing file above.

The directory exists. And with the option "--no-encryption" duplicity runs.

Now I've tried it with "--no-encryption" but with "scp" instead of "file":
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>> $ duplicity --short-filenames --no-encryption
>> /cygdrive/c/cygwin/home/Administrator/dup-test/
>> scp://address@hidden/cygdrive/c/cygwin/home/Admin
>> istrator/dup-b/
>> Remote file or directory 'cygdrive/c/cygwin/home/Administrator/dup-b/'
>> does not exist
[...]

> The remote directory does not exist.  Should you have specified it with
> //cygdrive in the URL to force it to the root of the disk?

No. I gave it a try and copy the output in that posting. It has failed
as you see it.

Do you don't have a cygwin environment to test it by yourself? I could
give you access to my test environment via RDP, if it would help you ...


ciao Ralph