"Permission Denied" error doesn't display problem path

[Vince Kimball]

My first attempt at backing up with Deja Dup fails with the message "Backup Failed: Permission Denied" I don't see any way to troubleshoot further. An sftp icon does appear on the desktop prior to the error message.

I'm running Ubuntu 11.04 amd64.
deja-dup 18.1.1-0ubuntu1
duplicity 0.6.13-0ubuntu1

[Vince Kimball (vince-vkimball)]

Attached is the deja-dup.log file. It is empty.

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

Without the deja-dup.log file, I can't do much. It really should have content if you got an error. Are you sure that you actually reproduced the bug when running the debug command?

[Vince Kimball (vince-vkimball)]

Yes, but I'll try it again.

[Vince Kimball (vince-vkimball)]

Okay, I've figured out the problem. I had to find and enter the full path to my backup folder on the sftp server. I was using a relative path.

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

Ah... That makes sense. DD will put in that first slash for you if you leave it off.

But there's still a bug here, that it was so unclear what was going on. The error message should be better.

[Benchrest (benchrest)]

I am so frustrated. I have the same problem and no where can I find an example how to code the full path name. My server (another pc with OPENSSH server installed) is 192.168.1.101. The user is loveafair65. I am just trying to backup a small folder to learn how to use this apparent good product.
I have tried:
192.168.1.101/BackupDejaDup (a folder I created on my other machine)
 /sftp://loveafair65@192.168.1.101/BackupDejaDup
/sftp://loveafair65@192.168.1.101/home/loveafair65/BackupDejaDup

and a number of other ideas. This is not just with Deja Dup. But so many linux directions assume the user knows how to code something. I wish Vince had entered how he coded the full path.

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

Hello, Benchrest! What version of Deja Dup? I suspect you can enter what you want by doing the following:

Selecting "SSH" for the backup location.
Entering 192.168.1.101 for the server.
Entering loveafair65 for the user.
Entering /home/loveafair65/BackupDejaDup for the folder.

[Benchrest (benchrest)]

That worked, thankyou

[Florian Ludwig (vierzigundzwei)]

It seems to be still the case that Deju Dup does not provide helpful error messages and no log message at all.

Maybe as a first step clarify if the permission problem is locally or with the backup destination.

[Ruben (ghostkeeper)]

The DejaDup version included in Ubuntu 18.04 still has this problem.
This worked for me:

stfp://server.net/home/ghostkeeper/backups/laptop

However my natural instinct was to type this:

sftp://<email address hidden>/backups/laptop