Ubuntu 17.04 was fresh installed in early July 2017, and I've since upgraded to 17.10 (I did not fresh install 17.10). I did not reconfigure Deja Dup before or after that upgrade.
When I did the fresh install and then set up the backup, I already had a backup directory on the secondary drive that my previous Ubuntu install had been using. But, I never configured this install to use that same directory; I've used a new directory with a different name from the get- go. So that shouldn't matter. Looking in the backup directory, the oldest file is dated August 2, 2017. And under scheduling I have Deja Dup configured to keep at least six months, so I think that date is the real date I first configured the backup. I have not tried configuring Deja Dup to use a new storage location since this problem started occuring. Should I try that? Also, I should note that the backup window shows the message "Creating a fresh backup to protect against backup corruption. This will take longer than normal." Wouldn't this mean that Deja Dup is not trying to create an incremental backup on top of what was backed up in Ubuntu 17.04? ** Changed in: deja-dup (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to deja-dup in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1729695 Title: ASCII decode error, but not due to filenames in backup target Status in deja-dup package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: On Ubuntu 17.10, I have deja-dup 36.2-0ubuntu1 installed. When I run "DEJA_DUP_DEBUG=1 deja-dup", it starts a backup as soon as it opens, as expected. But the backup fails. I get the following at the end of the output. I tried uninstalling Dropbox and deleting its .dropbox- dist directory, and then deja-dup crashed when trying to back up a completely different file (but the same byte in the same position). So I don't think this is due to any of the filenames I have in my backup target. I also tried a few commands to find non-ASCII filenames, with no luck. I'm not sure what else I can do to troubleshoot. DUPLICITY: INFO 4 'home/paul/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-38.4.27/PyQt5.QtGui.so' DUPLICITY: . A home/paul/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-38.4.27/PyQt5.QtGui.so DUPLICITY: DEBUG 1 DUPLICITY: . Removing still remembered temporary file /home/paul/.cache/deja-dup/1499b6292f58faddd30853ffbbfefcf6/duplicity-S72EWc-tempdir/mktemp-hYd54u-1 DUPLICITY: DEBUG 1 DUPLICITY: . Removing still remembered temporary file /home/paul/.cache/deja-dup/1499b6292f58faddd30853ffbbfefcf6/duplicity-VyBN42-tempdir/mktemp-BO1DKJ-1 DUPLICITY: INFO 11 DUPLICITY: . AsyncScheduler: running task synchronously (asynchronicity disabled) DUPLICITY: INFO 1 DUPLICITY: . Writing duplicity-full.20171102T205615Z.vol1.difftar.gz DUPLICITY: DEBUG 1 DUPLICITY: . Releasing lockfile /home/paul/.cache/deja-dup/1499b6292f58faddd30853ffbbfefcf6/lockfile.lock DUPLICITY: DEBUG 1 DUPLICITY: . Removing still remembered temporary file /tmp/duplicity-c9BMvB-tempdir/mktemp-RtijDc-270 DUPLICITY: DEBUG 1 DUPLICITY: . Removing still remembered temporary file /tmp/duplicity-c9BMvB-tempdir/mkstemp-3cxG5G-1 DUPLICITY: ERROR 30 UnicodeDecodeError DUPLICITY: . Traceback (most recent call last): DUPLICITY: . File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1546, in <module> DUPLICITY: . with_tempdir(main) DUPLICITY: . File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1540, in with_tempdir DUPLICITY: . fn() DUPLICITY: . File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1391, in main DUPLICITY: . do_backup(action) DUPLICITY: . File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1510, in do_backup DUPLICITY: . full_backup(col_stats) DUPLICITY: . File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 575, in full_backup DUPLICITY: . globals.backend) DUPLICITY: . File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 456, in write_multivol DUPLICITY: . (tdp, dest_filename, vol_num))) DUPLICITY: . File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/asyncscheduler.py", line 146, in schedule_task DUPLICITY: . return self.__run_synchronously(fn, params) DUPLICITY: . File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/asyncscheduler.py", line 172, in __run_synchronously DUPLICITY: . ret = fn(*params) DUPLICITY: . File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 455, in <lambda> DUPLICITY: . vol_num: put(tdp, dest_filename, vol_num), DUPLICITY: . File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 344, in put DUPLICITY: . backend.put(tdp, dest_filename) DUPLICITY: . File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/backend.py", line 376, in inner_retry DUPLICITY: . % exception_traceback()) DUPLICITY: . File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/util.py", line 52, in exception_traceback DUPLICITY: . return uexc(msg) DUPLICITY: . File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/util.py", line 80, in uexc DUPLICITY: . e = unicode(e).encode('utf-8') DUPLICITY: . UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 736: ordinal not in range(128) DUPLICITY: . ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10 Package: deja-dup 36.2-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-16.19-generic 4.13.4 Uname: Linux 4.13.0-16-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.1 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Thu Nov 2 17:46:56 2017 InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-07-02 (123 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Release amd64 (20170412) ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: deja-dup UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to artful on 2017-10-22 (11 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/deja-dup/+bug/1729695/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp