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I'm using duplicity on debian wheezy, which comes with version 0.6.18 as standard package. I also tried version 0.6.24 from wheezy-backports.

I want to use sftp as backend, but if I run:

duplicity --full-if-older-than 1M --exclude /run --exclude /proc --exclude /lost+found --exclude /dev --exclude /sys --exclude /mnt / sftp://$FTP_USER"@"$FTP_HOSTNAME/myserver

I get the following error:

ssh: Exception: Incompatible ssh peer (no acceptable kex algorithm)
ssh: Traceback (most recent call last):
ssh:   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/paramiko/transport.py", line 1546, in run
ssh:     self._handler_table[ptype](self, m)
ssh:   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/paramiko/transport.py", line 1618, in _negotiate_keys
ssh:     self._parse_kex_init(m)
ssh:   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/paramiko/transport.py", line 1731, in _parse_kex_init
ssh:     raise SSHException('Incompatible ssh peer (no acceptable kex algorithm)')
ssh: SSHException: Incompatible ssh peer (no acceptable kex algorithm)
ssh:

I've read that this is might related to the paramiko backend which is used as default, but when I change it to pexpect (...pexpect+sftp://...) I get this error:

UnsupportedBackendScheme: scheme not supported in url: pexpect+sftp://

How can that issue be fixed?

markus
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Try changing the command

duplicity /source-dir pexpect+sftp://backup.server.com/storage

to

duplicity /source-dir --ssh-backend=pexpect sftp://backup.server.com/storage

Tested with duplicity 0.6.24 on debian jessie 8.7

man duplicity:

--ssh-backend backend

Allows the explicit selection of a ssh backend. Defaults to paramiko.

Alternatively you might choose pexpect.

The scheme 'pexpect+sftp://' was introduced in a later version of duplicity.

canochordo
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