Re: [Duplicity-talk] Not backing up sub directories

[Ryan Puckett]

Peter Schuller wrote:
>> The home folder only contains a folder called "chris" at the moment
>> with lots of files and folders in it.
>>
>> There are no errors when backing up but only 1 file is shown as being
>> backed up and list-current-files shows none as backed up.
>>
>> If I change the source to /home/chris then it works! Am I doing
>> something wrong?
>>     
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> Is /home a symlink perhaps? If so you're asking duplicity to backup a
> single symlink in the former case, while in the latter case you'll be
> asking to backup your actual home directory.
>
> (Not that I know off hand that duplicity is supposed to handle a
> non-directory to begin with, but the above seems like a likely
> senario).
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Another quick thought:

Are you doing this as the "chris" user? If so you may be running into a
permissions issue. Have you tried backing up /home as root?