[Duplicity-talk] --cleanup not noticing manifest upload failures

[Peter Schuller]

A backup via the scp backend recently failed due to the ssh session timing 
out. The failure occurred during the upload of the full manifest file.

A subsequent --cleanup did not find anything outstanding, believing the backup 
was complete. Attempting an incremental backup then failed once the processes 
got to the end of the truncated file.

This is with duplicity 0.4.2; it may already be fixed.

I accidentally lost the actual duplicity output, but I expect that reproducing 
the problem is easy and I will do so if someone wants. However I suspect the 
reason for the problem is pretty obvious. Just wanted to send a note flagging 
the existence of it.

I suppose that from the perspective of "can I restore files?" the backup *is* 
complete, but still from a practical perspective the backup was not really 
complete, since it generates errors without manual intervention.

-- 
/ Peter Schuller

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