Failed to backup to google drive on ubuntu 19.10

[Andrej Gelenberg]

On Ubuntu 19.10 can't do backup to Google Drive anymore with the following error message:

BackendException: PyDrive backend requires PyDrive installation. Please read the manpage for setup details.
Exception: No module named 'apiclient'

I also could not find pydrive package or don't know how it properly called.

$ lsb_release -d
Description: Ubuntu 19.10

$ dpkg-query -W deja-dup duplicity
deja-dup 40.1-1ubuntu2
duplicity 0.8.04-2ubuntu1

The logfile for following command is empy:
DEJA_DUP_DEBUG=1 deja-dup --backup | tail -n 1000 > /tmp/deja-dup.log

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

This is a packaging bug in Debian & Ubuntu only. It's not an upstream deja-dup issue.

They have not yet packaged pydrive, which deja-dup and duplicity need to talk to Google Drive (we can no longer use the previous method of talking to Google Drive - which was through gvfs).

To work around this for now, I recommend trying the snap, which does not have this problem:
snap install deja-dup --classic

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The pydrive bindings are in focal now, fixed with this upload

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/deja-dup/40.6-1ubuntu1