[Duplicity-talk] Re: duplicity scp vs. sftp

[Heiko Baumann]

can anybody help with this?


On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:15:16 +0100, Heiko Baumann <address@hidden>
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> after updating duplicity i noticed that it now uses sftp for all
transfers.
> i found this bug report https://bugs.launchpad.net/duplicity/+bug/387218
> and the changelog states this:
> 
> * 387218     Make scp/ssh into sftp-only backend
> 
> http://duplicity.nongnu.org/CHANGELOG
> 
> does this mean there is no way to make new duplicity versions to use scp?
> or is there something wrong with my command?
> 
> i use this line to start backup to a remote host:
> 
> PASSPHRASE=mysecret /usr/bin/duplicity -v 5 --num-retries 5 --scp-command
> /tmp/duplicity-scp-9882.sh --tempdir /backup/duplicity-tmp/ --archive-dir
> /var/cache/duplicity /src/dir scp://address@hidden//dst/dir
> 
> /tmp/duplicity-scp-9882.sh is a wrapper shell script which limits
bandwidth
> depending on up/download speeds. with duplicity 0.5.18 this works great.
> but with version 0.6.05 it does not work anymore. and i havent found a
way
> to limit bandwidth with sftp backend......
> 
> 
> thanks for any help
> 
> heiko