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duplicity package

  1. Bug #1730451
  2. Comment #16

Comment 16 for bug 1730451

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Stefan Wolf (stefwolf) wrote :

I received a pretty similar error and thought I'd share my workaround. It may be OT but people are bound to come across this bug when they google.

The process would look like the backup was working (and for < 200MB and a small number of files it did) - but larger folders would do up to 4 MemoryErrors before they would time out.

I received the error with the main version (I believe it was 0.7.12) as well as with a more recent version (0.7.18.2).

My workaround was that I would MOUNT the remote folder (with sshfs) before executing my backup against the mounted folder. The commands remained otherwise unchanged. I've since done a full 100GB backup with > 400K files successfully.

Former statement:
duplicity full --encrypt-key="XXX" /source/files scp://<email address hidden>/files

Working statement:
duplicity full --encrypt-key="XXX" /source/files file:///mnt/destination/files

Curious indeed.
Hope this helps anyone.