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Asked: 2014-07-28 06:57:14 +0800 CST

Duplicity does not run via anacron in 14.04

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Since the implementation of the lockfile option I cannot run duplicity via anacron (https://bugs.launchpad.net/duplicity/+bug/1320641). Is there any way to circumvent this?

14.04

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    doing

    rm -rf ~/.cache/deja-dup/*

    rm -rf ~/.cache/duplicity/*

    seems to fix the problem.

    Source https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/duplicity/+bug/1318833

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  2. The previous version does not have that bug. So why not downgrade?
    For example with sudo apt-get install duplicity=0.6.21-0ubuntu4.1.

    If I remove the .cache/duplicity/ before anacron runs the script the script also runs successfully.

    This may be due to the interruption of duplicity by a signal during shutdown. Try shutdown the OS during manual backup and run it again manually to check if that error occurs.
    this fork on github handles interrupt signals as follows 

    # The lock succeeded. Create a signal handler to remove the lock file when the process terminates.  
trap 'EXITCODE=$?; echo "Removing lock. Exit code: ${EXITCODE}" >>${LOGFILE}; rm -f "${LOCKFILE}"' 0

    you may try this.

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