Here's a log from my system that returns the Failed/Success message: DUPLICITY: INFO 2 54999298190 DUPLICITY: . Processed volume 1145 DUPLICITY: DEBUG 1 DUPLICITY: . Registering (mktemp) temporary file /tmp/duplicity-T5XHyy-tempdir/mktemp-wg1ZQH-147 DUPLICITY: INFO 11 DUPLICITY: . AsyncScheduler: running task synchronously (asynchronicity disabled) DUPLICITY: INFO 1 DUPLICITY: . Writing smb://tlittle@media/backups/duplicity-full.20120421T000419Z.vol1146.difftar.gz DUPLICITY: WARNING 1 DUPLICITY: . Attempt 1 failed: Error: Connection timed out DUPLICITY: DEBUG 1 DUPLICITY: . Backtrace of previous error: Traceback (innermost last): DUPLICITY: . File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/backend.py", line 309, in iterate DUPLICITY: . return fn(*args, **kwargs) DUPLICITY: . File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/backends/giobackend.py", line 119, in copy_file DUPLICITY: . target.get_parse_name()) DUPLICITY: . File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/backends/giobackend.py", line 95, in handle_error DUPLICITY: . raise e DUPLICITY: . Error: Connection timed out DUPLICITY: . DUPLICITY: INFO 1 DUPLICITY: . Writing smb://tlittle@media/backups/duplicity-full.20120421T000419Z.vol1146.difftar.gz DUPLICITY: WARNING 1 DUPLICITY: . Attempt 2 failed: Error: Success DUPLICITY: DEBUG 1 DUPLICITY: . Backtrace of previous error: Traceback (innermost last): DUPLICITY: . File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/backend.py", line 309, in iterate DUPLICITY: . return fn(*args, **kwargs) DUPLICITY: . File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/backends/giobackend.py", line 119, in copy_file DUPLICITY: . target.get_parse_name()) DUPLICITY: . File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/backends/giobackend.py", line 95, in handle_error DUPLICITY: . raise e DUPLICITY: . Error: Success DUPLICITY: . DUPLICITY: INFO 1 DUPLICITY: . Writing smb://tlittle@media/backups/duplicity-full.20120421T000419Z.vol1146.difftar.gz DUPLICITY: WARNING 1 DUPLICITY: . Attempt 3 failed: Error: Success DUPLICITY: DEBUG 1 DUPLICITY: . Backtrace of previous error: Traceback (innermost last): DUPLICITY: . File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/backend.py", line 309, in iterate DUPLICITY: . return fn(*args, **kwargs) DUPLICITY: . File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/backends/giobackend.py", line 119, in copy_file DUPLICITY: . target.get_parse_name()) DUPLICITY: . File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/backends/giobackend.py", line 95, in handle_error DUPLICITY: . raise e DUPLICITY: . Error: Success DUPLICITY: . DUPLICITY: INFO 1 DUPLICITY: . Writing smb://tlittle@media/backups/duplicity-full.20120421T000419Z.vol1146.difftar.gz DUPLICITY: WARNING 1 DUPLICITY: . Attempt 4 failed: Error: Success DUPLICITY: DEBUG 1 DUPLICITY: . Backtrace of previous error: Traceback (innermost last): DUPLICITY: . File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/backend.py", line 309, in iterate DUPLICITY: . return fn(*args, **kwargs) DUPLICITY: . File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/backends/giobackend.py", line 119, in copy_file DUPLICITY: . target.get_parse_name()) DUPLICITY: . File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/backends/giobackend.py", line 95, in handle_error DUPLICITY: . raise e DUPLICITY: . Error: Success DUPLICITY: . DUPLICITY: INFO 1 DUPLICITY: . Writing smb://tlittle@media/backups/duplicity-full.20120421T000419Z.vol1146.difftar.gz DUPLICITY: ERROR 50 put '/tmp/duplicity-T5XHyy-tempdir/mktemp-wg1ZQH-147' 'smb://tlittle@media/backups/duplicity-full.20120421T000419Z.vol1146.difftar.gz' DUPLICITY: . Success DUPLICITY: DEBUG 1 DUPLICITY: . Removing still remembered temporary file /tmp/duplicity-T5XHyy-tempdir/mktemp-wg1ZQH-147 DUPLICITY: DEBUG 1 DUPLICITY: . Removing still remembered temporary file /tmp/duplicity-T5XHyy-tempdir/mkstemp-KK3ewN-1 ** (deja-dup:15735): DEBUG: DuplicityInstance.vala:568: duplicity (15760) exited with value 50