Re: [Duplicity-talk] problems trying to use par2

[edgar . soldin]

maybe your duplicity is simply old ;)? ..ede/duply.net

On 08.05.2017 13:17, John Covici wrote:
> Thanks, the par2 command line was not mentioned in the  local manpage
> as well.  I will see if I can figure out a patch for that.
> 
> edgar.soldin--- via Duplicity-talk wrote:
>>
>> right,
>>
>> http://duplicity.nongnu.org/duplicity.1.html#sect30
>> lists the command line binary 'par2cmdline' but not pexpect, probably 
>> because it is usually a dependency by the distro's packaging as it is needed 
>> for pexpect+ssh://, the legacy ssh backend.
>>
>> how about providing a patch for the manpage ;) adding the pexpect line. it 
>> is already there for pexpect ssh?
>>
>> ..ede/duply.net
>>
>> On 08.05.2017 12:36, John Covici wrote:
>>> Thanks all for your response.
>>>
>>> OK, that makes sense -- I wish the requirements were in the man page
>>> -- would have saved me a lot of fooling around.
>>>
>>> there is also a package libpar2 -- do I need this as well?
>>>
>>> On Mon, 08 May 2017 06:22:14 -0400,
>>> edgar.soldin--- via Duplicity-talk wrote:
>>>>
>>>> John,
>>>>
>>>> A.
>>>> wrt. to the first issue.. i am pretty sure that you cannot start using 
>>>> par2 backend just within a chain. it will try to download the par2 files 
>>>> for the existing chain, which obviously were never created, so a missing 
>>>> resource exception sounds only natural.
>>>> solution: start a new chain by creating a new full.
>>>>
>>>> B.
>>>>> Attempt 2 failed. ExceptionPexpect: The command was not found or was
>>>>> not executable: par2.
>>>> make sure that you have par2 installed. it is a command line binary eg. 
>>>> like gpg. them make sure it is in PATH environment and can be executed by 
>>>> running 'par2' on the command line.
>>>>
>>>> ..ede/duply.net
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 08.05.2017 11:05, John Covici via Duplicity-talk wrote:
>>>>> Well, I now know that I am using pexpect 4.2.1, and so I tried it on a
>>>>> full backup to see if it would work any better.  It kept saying things
>>>>> like
>>>>> Making directory /tmp/duplicity-29_4Gr-tempdir/duplicity_temp.7
>>>>> Create Par2 recovery files
>>>>> Attempt 2 failed. ExceptionPexpect: The command was not found or was
>>>>> not executable: par2.
>>>>>
>>>>> I do have version 4.2.1 of pexpect installed.  Am I doing something
>>>>> wrong or is par2 just broken?
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, 07 May 2017 04:43:17 -0400,
>>>>> Bach, Matthias wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi John,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> • Which version of Duplicity are you using?
>>>>>> • Has it worked without the par2 backend?
>>>>>> • Which version of the azure-storage package are you using?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Kind Regards,
>>>>>> Matthias
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>>>>>> Am 06.05.17, 09:23 schrieb "Duplicity-talk im Auftrag von John Covici 
>>>>>> via Duplicity-talk" <address@hidden im Auftrag von address@hidden>:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     Hi.  I am using asure as my backup and I decided to try using par2 to
>>>>>>     gain some redundancy.  I just started to use it on an incremental
>>>>>>     backup, and if it works use it on the next full one.
>>>>>>     
>>>>>>     Now two things happened.  It wanted a module called pexpect which was
>>>>>>     not there, but I found and installed the module.
>>>>>>     
>>>>>>     Then I got the following instead of a backup.
>>>>>>     
>>>>>>     Added incremental Backupset (start_time: Thu May  4 03:01:00 2017 /
>>>>>>     end_time: Fri May  5 03:01:08 2017)
>>>>>>     Last full backup date: Sat Oct 15 03:49:55 2016
>>>>>>     Making directory /tmp/duplicity-vE26jR-tempdir/duplicity_temp.1
>>>>>>     Deleting tree /tmp/duplicity-vE26jR-tempdir/duplicity_temp.1
>>>>>>     Deleting
>>>>>>     
>>>>>> /tmp/duplicity-vE26jR-tempdir/duplicity_temp.1/duplicity-inc.20170504T070100Z.to.20170505T070108Z.manifest.gpg.par2
>>>>>>     Deleting /tmp/duplicity-vE26jR-tempdir/duplicity_temp.1
>>>>>>     Giving up after 1 attempts. AzureMissingResourceHttpError: The
>>>>>>     specified blob does not exist.
>>>>>>     
>>>>>>     Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
>>>>>>     
>>>>>>     -- 
>>>>>>     Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question 
>>>>>> is:
>>>>>>     How do
>>>>>>     you spend it?
>>>>>>     
>>>>>>              John Covici
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