Comment 2 for bug 575010

I've seen the same error after working for several days - without actually mentioning a specific file. Cleanup and purge didn't help (did not show any errors).

I increased the verbosity and in my case it turned out to be a file somewhere deep below the following path:
/root/.cache/duplicity/7fdd4daf0969a512e2d6b6d043941dbd/...

Guessing that this directory is only needed as cache for speed up the backup-process I just deleted it and re-ran the backup. Now it worked again.

According to [1] it could be a problem related to very long path-file-names.

duplicity 0.6.08b
Ubuntu lucid
Python 2.6.5
Target system accessed by sFTP

[1] http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.duplicity.general/month=20030801