I have one idea, based on my experience yesterday. I renamed the /home/scohen/Taormina directory and then created a new directory of that name on the remote drive. A quick check of disk space informed me that I would not have enough room for a full backup on the remote drive. So I looked more closely and saw that there were a lot of very old backups under another directory that I could easily do without on the drive, and deleted those, ran the backup successfully.
My idea is this: what happens if there is not enough room to complete the backup on the intended drive? What error message does duplicity give in that case? I have no memory of any particular error message on 2021/10/07, though I do remember a problem, and being unable to solve it then, I simply gave up on backups for awhile, which I hoped to get back to with 22.04. My idea is that this situation could lead to a truncated backup file, and if the error message were not clear, confusion on the part of the user. If a backup fails due to lack of disk space on the destination, a specific error message to that effect would be useful. I don't know if that's what happened here but it could be. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1970124 Title: duplicity backup fails with obscure error message Ubuntu 22.04 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/duplicity/+bug/1970124/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
