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duplicity is an open source software to backup data incrementally in an encrypted format. It can save/upload the backup to local or remote destination. It is written in python and uses librsync.

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Duplicity error: BackendException: ssh connection to SERVER_IP:22 failed

This used to work just fine until I had to change the server ip. I can sftp to the server. I can also run a simple python code using paramiko to connect to sftp, and it works ok. But when I run duplicity, it fails: Duplicity error: BackendException:…
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Have Duplicity use user's persistent gpg session when performing full filesystem backup?

I'm trying to set up automatic, full filesystem backups on my local system using Duplicity. I do not want to have to enter my password for it to encrypt a volume: what if I am not at the computer and the backup stalls? I absolutely do not want to be…
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duplicity: UnsupportedBackendScheme: scheme not supported in url: dpbx:///

I'm trying to use duplicity to backup a directory to DropBox in Debian Stretch. However, duplicity gives me the error: UnsupportedBackendScheme: scheme not supported in url: dpbx:/// I have verified that…
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Why is posix.lstat taking such a long time? (duplicity backing up of 9p virtio filesystem)

I have a filesystem mounted with 9p virtio through KVM, and am backing it up using duplicity to a remote SSH server. I' m trying to speed up the backup process, which seems unreasonably slow to me. The source size is 20GB in 107.651 files, which are…
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Cannot restore duplicity backup

I've created a backup of my home folder, to a remote system, using duplicity 0.6.26: duplicity --no-compression --no-encryption . scp://... while being in the home folder. Now I seem to be unable to restore the backup. I've copied everything from…
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duplicity s3 backup from centos

I'm trying to backup server data to S3 but getting no success. Below is the script which I run to start backup on S3. I have create a user using IAM and have granted all permissions to the user. #!/bin/bash export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="access key…
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Restore from Amazon S3 with dupy - duplicity on a new machine

I am trying to restore a full backup in a new machine but it seems that is not working. I installed my pgp's and secret keys. Also I copied my project from duply but when I run duply test restore /tmp/test/ I got that: --- Start running command…
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Using duplicity in a disaster recovery scenario

I am using duplicity for backups on my Debian servers. I have successfully backed up and restored files using duplicity. In my backup script, I have /usr/bin/dpkg --get-selections > /installed_packages_ so that I can backup the package…
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Duplicity -> S3 backup failing with "[Errno 105] No buffer space available"

I have a nightly script on my Ubuntu 10.04 VPS which uses duplicity (0.6.24) to run incremental, encrypted backups to Amazon S3. This script had been working until a month or so ago when it started failing with errors like the following: Upload…
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Faster picking of files from a tar archive

We've got a collection of servers that we're backing up using Duplicity. We're trying to build some functionality for our staff so that they can select a file and view the available versions for restore. Duplicity stores its metadata in tar files…
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Duplicity: is it possible to restore files from a backup that has not been updated in six months?

I need files from an old server that ran a daily duplicity backup and was deactivated six months ago. The backup files are store in an Amazon S3 bucket and the last backup was made about six months ago. When I try to restore it using duplicity, It…
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duplicity sftp backup encryption

I'm very new to linux and I am running difficulties with duplicity. I am currently trying to create a backup script using duplicity and backing up over sftp and I am not sure if I am already encrypting the backup. The following is the code I'm…
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Duplicity fails on Too many open files?

I'm using Duply on top of Duplicity but apparently it fails (after 10 min on 100% cpu) on gnupg --- Start running command BKP 21:10:58.679 --- NcFTP version is 3.2.2 Reading globbing filelist /root/.duply/offsite/exclude Local and Remote metadata…
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How to backup my files secure and properly

Duplicity & rsnapshot helps me backup my files to remote FTPs server. I can recover file if my server harddisk failed. But if someone hacking my local server and he can get all remote server access info from cron scripts, so hacker can remove the…
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Duplicity no longer works with Amazon S3

Duplicity 0.6.10 doesnt seem to like the s3+http protocol. I keep getting the following error message. unsupportedbackendscheme: scheme not supported in url: s3+http:// I've tried with 0.6.09 as well and no luck. I finally got down to…
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