Re: [Duplicity-talk] 0.4.3-rc11 failure on FTP

[Nicolas Aspert]

Hello

On 8/4/07, Kenneth Loafman <address@hidden> wrote:
> It turns out there's an easy fix to that, use the -l option.
>
>   ncftpls -F -t 30 -u srvbck -l ftp://192.168.1.10/array1/homebck0/
>
> gives a long listing.  I just need to parse the list returned, but
> that's not too bad as long as everyone's compatible.  The best answer
> may be to use the -l option first, if we get anything back then do the
> default -1 option to get the list, thereby ignoring ls differences.
>
> I'll put a note into Mike to see if there's a better way.  This has
> become a real nuisance for all.
>

That's okay I just got around this one by creating a dummy file.
However, the ncftp backend suffers from a MAJOR problem I recently experienced.
While a full backup took about 11h, it now need 25 hours to
complete... I am now considering to revert to the old ftp backend
unless this one is improved (maybe using the spooling possibilities of
ncftp ?)

Best regards
Nicolas