Re: [Duplicity-talk] AssertionError: time not moving forward

[edgar . soldin]

Please try 0.6.13. Changelog states

http://duplicity.nongnu.org/CHANGELOG
Bugs closed in this release:
579958     Assertion error "time not moving forward at appropriate pace"

Uninstall the distros duplicity first and then

# install needed packages first
python python-devel librsync-devel
# download & extract
wget http://.../duplicity-0.6.07.tar.gz
tar xvf duplicity-0.6.07.tar.gz
cd duplicity-0.6.07/
# install into PREFIX
python setup.py install

except it's not 0.6.07 in your case .. good luck ede/duply.net


On 31.05.2011 14:26, Andre Schütz wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> we are using duplicity for our incremental backup and since a few days, we 
> get the following error:
> 
> Error:
> =======================================================
> 
> Local and Remote metadata are synchronized, no sync needed.
> Last inc backup left a partial set, restarting.
> Last full backup date: Sun Nov  7 01:00:01 2010
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1239, in <module>
>     with_tempdir(main)
>   File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1232, in with_tempdir
>     fn()
>   File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1214, in main
>     incremental_backup(sig_chain)
>   File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 474, in incremental_backup
>     assert dup_time.curtime != dup_time.prevtime, "time not moving forward at 
> appropriate pace - system clock issues?"
> AssertionError: time not moving forward at appropriate pace - system clock 
> issues?
> 
> We use the following configuration:
> 
> duplicity: Version 0.6.08b released March 11, 2010
> Operating System: Ubuntu 8.04.4 hardy
> 
> The backup is stored in a Rackspace Cloud Files Container.
> 
> We found another solution that described a similar error. The solution was to 
> delete the 
> .part files in the /root/.cache/duplicity local folder. We renamed the .part 
> files but the
> error was not fixed.
> 
> Does anybody have an idea how to solve that problem?
> 
> Many thanks,
> Andre Schütz
> 
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