Re: [Duplicity-talk] Just starting with duplicity

[Dan]

i have tried all of the formats suggested and since the etc directory is
being created on the target I assume the connection is being made at some
level.  thanks for the help on this.

dan
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sandbox:~# duplicity /etc ftp://address@hidden:address@hidden/etc
GnuPG passphrase:
No signatures found, switching to full backup.
Retype passphrase to confirm:
ncftpput etc/duplicity-full.2009-01-08T10:51:37-08:00.vol1.difftar.gpg:
server said: The name you specified is not allowed.
Running 'ncftpput -f /tmp/duplicity-iNzqxu-tempdir/mkstemp-k2sJVp-1 -F -t
30 -m -V -C '/tmp/duplicity-iNzqxu-tempdir/mktemp-Rb7sL_-3'
'etc/duplicity-full.2009-01-08T10:51:37-08:00.vol1.difftar.gpg'' failed
(attempt #1)
ncftpput etc/duplicity-full.2009-01-08T10:51:37-08:00.vol1.difftar.gpg:
server said: The name you specified is not allowed.
Running 'ncftpput -f /tmp/duplicity-iNzqxu-tempdir/mkstemp-k2sJVp-1 -F -t
30 -m -V -C '/tmp/duplicity-iNzqxu-tempdir/mktemp-Rb7sL_-3'
'etc/duplicity-full.2009-01-08T10:51:37-08:00.vol1.difftar.gpg'' failed
(attempt #2)
ncftpput etc/duplicity-full.2009-01-08T10:51:37-08:00.vol1.difftar.gpg:
server said: The name you specified is not allowed.
Running 'ncftpput -f /tmp/duplicity-iNzqxu-tempdir/mkstemp-k2sJVp-1 -F -t
30 -m -V -C '/tmp/duplicity-iNzqxu-tempdir/mktemp-Rb7sL_-3'
'etc/duplicity-full.2009-01-08T10:51:37-08:00.vol1.difftar.gpg'' failed
(attempt #3)
ncftpput etc/duplicity-full.2009-01-08T10:51:37-08:00.vol1.difftar.gpg:
server said: The name you specified is not allowed.
Running 'ncftpput -f /tmp/duplicity-iNzqxu-tempdir/mkstemp-k2sJVp-1 -F -t
30 -m -V -C '/tmp/duplicity-iNzqxu-tempdir/mktemp-Rb7sL_-3'
'etc/duplicity-full.2009-01-08T10:51:37-08:00.vol1.difftar.gpg'' failed
(attempt #4)
ncftpput etc/duplicity-full.2009-01-08T10:51:37-08:00.vol1.difftar.gpg:
server said: The name you specified is not allowed.
Running 'ncftpput -f /tmp/duplicity-iNzqxu-tempdir/mkstemp-k2sJVp-1 -F -t
30 -m -V -C '/tmp/duplicity-iNzqxu-tempdir/mktemp-Rb7sL_-3'
'etc/duplicity-full.2009-01-08T10:51:37-08:00.vol1.difftar.gpg'' failed
(attempt #5)
Giving up trying to execute 'ncftpput -f
/tmp/duplicity-iNzqxu-tempdir/mkstemp-k2sJVp-1 -F -t 30 -m -V -C
'/tmp/duplicity-iNzqxu-tempdir/mktemp-Rb7sL_-3'
'etc/duplicity-full.2009-01-08T10:51:37-08:00.vol1.difftar.gpg'' after 5
attempts
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 522, in <module>
    with_tempdir(main)
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 516, in with_tempdir
    fn()
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 507, in main
    full_backup(col_stats)
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 209, in full_backup
    bytes_written = write_multivol("full", tarblock_iter, globals.backend)
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 149, in write_multivol
    bytes_written += waiter()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/duplicity/asyncscheduler.py",
line 154, in __run_synchronously
    ret = fn(*params)
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 143, in <lambda>
    async_waiters.append(io_scheduler.schedule_task(lambda tdp,
dest_filename: put(tdp, dest_filename),
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 97, in put
    backend.put(tdp, dest_filename)
  File
"/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/duplicity/backends/ftpbackend.py",
line 81, in put
    self.run_command_persist(commandline)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/duplicity/backend.py", line 231,
in run_command_persist
    raise BackendException("Error running '%s'" % private)
duplicity.errors.BackendException: Error running 'ncftpput -f
/tmp/duplicity-iNzqxu-tempdir/mkstemp-k2sJVp-1 -F -t 30 -m -V -C
'/tmp/duplicity-iNzqxu-tempdir/mktemp-Rb7sL_-3'
'etc/duplicity-full.2009-01-08T10:51:37-08:00.vol1.difftar.gpg''