Thanks for the information. First of all, as reported by the log file
you sent and the listing of your backup directory, there is an
uncompressed backup volume in your volume directory, and an uncompressed
file of files signatures, created or last modified on Dec 22:
duplicity-full.20161129T015237Z.vol1.difftar
duplicity-full-signatures.20161129T015237Z.sigtar
along with their older compressed versions, created on Nov 28:
duplicity-full.20161129T015237Z.vol1.difftar.gz
duplicity-full-signatures.20161129T015237Z.sigtar.gz
As far as I know there shouldn't be any such uncompressed files in the
backup location. Did you uncompress them yourself perhaps? In any case,
they're confusing duplicity (the command-line backup tool Déjà-Dup is a
graphical front-end to), if I understand the log file and error message
correctly:
DUPLICITY: INFO 1
DUPLICITY: . Args: /usr/bin/duplicity collection-status [...]
[...]
DUPLICITY: DEBUG 1
DUPLICITY: . 12 files exist on backend
DUPLICITY: DEBUG 1
DUPLICITY: . Extracting backup chains from list of files:
[u'duplicity-full.20161129T015237Z.vol1.difftar',
u'duplicity-full.20161129T015237Z.manifest',
u'duplicity-full.20161129T015237Z.vol1.difftar.gz',
u'duplicity-full-signatures.20161129T015237Z.sigtar.gz',
u'duplicity-full-signatures.20161129T015237Z.sigtar',
[...]
DUPLICITY: DEBUG 1
DUPLICITY: . File duplicity-full.20161129T015237Z.vol1.difftar is not part of
a
known set; creating new set
DUPLICITY: DEBUG 1
DUPLICITY: . File duplicity-full.20161129T015237Z.manifest is part of known
set
DUPLICITY: ERROR 30 AssertionError
[...]
DUPLICITY: . File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/collections.py",
line 105, in add_filename(self.volume_name_dict, filename)
DUPLICITY: . AssertionError:
({1: 'duplicity-full.20161129T015237Z.vol1.difftar'},
'duplicity-full.20161129T015237Z.vol1.difftar.gz')
>From my understanding of the duplicity source code in the incriminated
file, this is what happens when happens Déjà-Dup launches the
collection-status action to have duplicity find out which backup chains
are in the backup repository: Déjà-Dup passes the list of files in this
directory to duplicity, which takes the uncompressed duplicity-
full.20161129T015237Z.vol1.difftar for the start of a backup set, then
tries to add the compressed duplicity-
full.20161129T015237Z.vol1.difftar.gz to this set, and fails because the
volume number of this file has already been added to the set. Otherwise
there would be two backup volumes with the same volume number in the
backup set, and duplicity can't guess which one to take into account.
To fix this bug from happening in the future, we could perhaps restrict
the file list that is passed from Déjà-Dup to duplicity collection-
status? Perhaps to *.{diff,sig}tar.{gz,gpg} and *.manifest files only,
or something like that?
Or perhaps it could be fixed in duplicity, by having duplicity prefer a
particular filename when there are two volumes with the same number in
the same backup set? But then which one and on what grounds?
Vej, your take on that?
In the meantime, David, I believe it's safe for you to delete those
extraneous uncompressed files (or move them outside of your backup
repository). The assertion error should no longer be triggered, but you
should bump into other errors, because your backup repository clearly
doesn't have a complete, well-formed backup chain. More on that later.
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Title:
duja-dup AssertionError: ({1: 'duplicity-
full.20161129T015237Z.vol1.difftar'}
Status in deja-dup package in Ubuntu:
Incomplete
Bug description:
Deja-dup has never worked for me (last 5 years) always errors.
No after a new system reinstall 16.04 I was determined to get it up and
running and learn about it's use,and perhaps recover some old data.
Still fails with see attached text
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: deja-dup 34.2-0ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-57.78-generic 4.4.35
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-57-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.4
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Fri Dec 23 16:56:43 2016
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/deja-dup
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-12-02 (21 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64
(20160719)
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
SHELL=/usr/bin/fish
LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
SourcePackage: deja-dup
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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