Re: [Duplicity-talk] Backup failing (ftp, error 553)

[edgar . soldin]

On 19.05.2020 20:20, duplicityml--- via Duplicity-talk wrote:
> Per Subject.
>
> What I am doing is
>   duplicity --verbosity info --encrypt-sign-key=$GPG_KEY --log-file 
> backup.log ~/Pictures/MyStuff ftp://foo:<SECRET!>@ftpserver//foo/MyStuff
> and I then get some good data sent (and can see them on the ftp server):
>   [...]
>   Writing duplicity-full.20200519T173310Z.vol3.difftar.gpg
>   Reading results of 'lftp -c "source 
> /tmp/duplicity-eh6maW-tempdir/mkstemp-ZdZ0OJ-1; mkdir -p /foo/MyStuff/; put 
> /tmp/duplicity-eh6maW-tempdir/mktemp-4MR95Y-5 -o 
> /foo/MyStuff/duplicity-full.20200519T173310Z.vol3.difftar.gpg"'
>   Deleting /tmp/duplicity-eh6maW-tempdir/mktemp-4MR95Y-5
>   AsyncScheduler: task completed successfully
>
> ...until I get this:
>   Writing duplicity-full.20200519T173310Z.vol4.difftar.gpg
>   Reading results of 'lftp -c "source 
> /tmp/duplicity-eh6maW-tempdir/mkstemp-ZdZ0OJ-1; mkdir -p /foo/MyStuff/; put   
> /tmp/duplicity-eh6maW-tempdir/mktemp-3OAXaU-6 -o 
> /foo/MyStuff/duplicity-full.20200519T173310Z.vol4.difftar.gpg"'
>   Giving up after 5 attempts. BackendException: Error running 'lftp -c 
> "source /tmp/duplicity-eh6maW-tempdir/mkstemp-ZdZ0OJ-1; mkdir -p 
> /foo/MyStuff/; put /tmp/duplicity-eh6maW-tempdir/mktemp-3OAXaU-6 -o 
> /foo/MyStuff/duplicity-full.20200519T173310Z.vol4.difftar.gpg"': returned 1, 
> with output:
>
>   mkdir: Access failed: 550 foo/MyStuff/: File exists. (/foo/MyStuff/)
>   put: /tmp/duplicity-eh6maW-tempdir/mktemp-3OAXaU-6: Access failed: 553 
> foo/MyStuff/duplicity-full.20200519T173310Z.vol4.difftar.gpg: Input/output 
> error. (/foo/MyStuff/duplicity-full.20200519T173310Z.vol4.difftar.gpg)
>
>
> The log generated ends
>
> WARNING 1
> . Attempt 4 failed. BackendException: Error running 'lftp -c "source 
> /tmp/duplicity-eh6maW-tempdir/mkstemp-ZdZ0OJ-1; mkdir -p /foo/MyStuff/; put 
> /tmp/duplicity-eh6maW-tempdir/mktemp-3OAXaU-6 -o 
> /foo/MyStuff/duplicity-full.20200519T173310Z.vol4.difftar.gpg"': returned 1, 
> with output:
> .
> . mkdir: Access failed: 550 foo/MyStuff/: File exists. (/foo/MyStuff/)
> . put: /tmp/duplicity-eh6maW-tempdir/mktemp-3OAXaU-6: Access failed: 553 
> foo/MyStuff/duplicity-full.20200519T173310Z.vol4.difftar.gpg: Input/output 
> error. (/foo/MyStuff/duplicity-full.20200519T173310Z.vol4.difftar.gpg)
> .
>
> INFO 1
> . Writing duplicity-full.20200519T173310Z.vol4.difftar.gpg
>
> INFO 1
> . Reading results of 'lftp -c "source 
> /tmp/duplicity-eh6maW-tempdir/mkstemp-ZdZ0OJ-1; mkdir -p /foo/MyStuff/; put 
> /tmp/duplicity-eh6maW-tempdir/mktemp-3OAXaU-6 -o 
> /foo/MyStuff/duplicity-full.20200519T173310Z.vol4.difftar.gpg"'
>
> ERROR 50 put '/tmp/duplicity-eh6maW-tempdir/mktemp-3OAXaU-6' 
> 'duplicity-full.20200519T173310Z.vol4.difftar.gpg'
> . Giving up after 5 attempts. BackendException: Error running 'lftp -c 
> "source /tmp/duplicity-eh6maW-tempdir/mkstemp-ZdZ0OJ-1; mkdir -p 
> /foo/MyStuff/; put /tmp/duplicity-eh6maW-tempdir/mktemp-3OAXaU-6 -o 
> /foo/MyStuff/duplicity-full.20200519T173310Z.vol4.difftar.gpg"': returned 1, 
> with output:
> .
> . mkdir: Access failed: 550 foo/MyStuff/: File exists. (/foo/MyStuff/)
> . put: /tmp/duplicity-eh6maW-tempdir/mktemp-3OAXaU-6: Access failed: 553 
> foo/MyStuff/duplicity-full.20200519T173310Z.vol4.difftar.gpg: Input/output 
> error. (/foo/MyStuff/duplicity-full.20200519T173310Z.vol4.difftar.gpg)
> .
>
> if that helps.
>
> I don't understand why it should suddenly fail part way through. It now won't 
> do anything at all (same error). Nothing changed on the ftp server 
> configuration-wise (I can be sure of that because I'm the only one who has 
> access and it's right there /points to the box, the other side of the room).
>
> Can anyone help, please?

sure. 553 is an ftp error that occurs on the server side. search the web
https://bobcares.com/blog/ftp-error-553/

especially your error says
> . mkdir: Access failed: 550 foo/MyStuff/: File exists. (/foo/MyStuff/)
> . put: /tmp/duplicity-eh6maW-tempdir/mktemp-3OAXaU-6: Access failed: 553 
> foo/MyStuff/duplicity-full.20200519T173310Z.vol4.difftar.gpg: Input/output 
> error. (/foo/MyStuff/duplicity-full.20200519T173310Z.vol4.difftar.gpg)

which is ok for the first error. it can be ignored.
but the second should not occur. not sure what's up on your server there. maybe 
some file system corruption or is it full maybe?

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