Questions[duplicity](ubuntu)

Using Ubuntu 16.04, deja-dup 34.2, and duplicity 0.7.06.

To start a weekly backup I connected the usual external drive with the usual computer, gave the password and received the halt message:

The existing backup is of a computer named correctname, but the current computer name is correctname.lan. If this is unexpected, you should back up to a different location.

Cancel/Continue

This is unexpected. Not because I plugged the external drive into the wrong computer, but because the name of the computer is indeed correct. Checked with uname -n.

I am not quite inclined to back up in a different location, because I would not want to have this issue happen again with other names/computers. Fresh backups are time-consuming, among other considerations.

The questions arise: how comes that deja-dup/duplicity is making up this name? how to fix this?

Added. By clicking on Continue you do perform an incremental backup. Still the halt message is an unnecessary stop in the procedure to avoid if possible.

This is the error:

Error processing remote manifest (duplicity-inc.20180712T125810Z.to.20180719T130228Z.manifest.gpg): GPG Failed, see log below:
===== Begin GnuPG log =====
gpg: WARNING: "--no-use-agent" is an obsolete option - it has no effect
gpg: AES256 encrypted data
gpg: encrypted with 1 passphrase
gpg: decryption failed: Bad session key
===== End GnuPG log =====

I recently upgraded Ubuntu from 17.10 to 18.04 LTS and used my usb key as a backup for my files. Now that I am on Ubuntu 18.04, I have a problem with duplicity. In fact, when I run the restore process, the restore windows says "STORAGE LOCATION NOT AVAILABLE, Waiting for Google to be configured in your backup settings..." and then nothing happens. Can you help me please? Thank you very much

I have made a duplicity backup with Ubuntu 14.04 in another laptop of my home directory.

I copied all duplicity back files to my current laptop to "/home/user/Ubuntu-backup"

How do i browse the content of that backup see if it is worth restoring? I want to restore how do i restore from those files.

How can I set duplicity to exclude all hidden files and folders from backing them up, without specifying each and every one of them?