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duplicity package

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Tom Slominski (tomslominski) wrote : 'metadata' file not found when creating backup

Linux release: Ubuntu 13.04 64bit
Kernel: 3.8.0-29-generic
Python: 2.7.4
Deja Dup: 26.0
Duplicity: 0.6.21

Hi. I've tried to do my monthly or so backup recently, but Deja Dup crashed after trying to backup a very large file (VM disk with Windows 7, 50GB or so). I tried to do another one, this time excluding all my large VM's. However, now when trying to do a backup I'm getting the following error a few seconds after inputting my encryption password:

Could not restore ‘/home/tom/.cache/deja-dup/metadata’: File not found in backup

I've tried reinstalling both deja-dup and duplicity, purging duplicity, deleting deja-dup and duplicity from /home/tom/.cache, deleting the backup files on the external drive, deleting it's config as described here http://askubuntu.com/questions/337156/how-to-run-deja-dup-in-gtk-and-debug-mode. I know (well, I have some evidence supporting this) that the drive itself isn't faulty as I managed to backup my old laptop to the drive using duplicity and it worked fine (Fedora 19, deja dup 26.0 I think). I will upload the appropriate logs momentarily.