Re: [Duplicity-talk] AssertionError: time not moving forward

[Andre Schütz]

Thanks for the fast reply,

I will try the new version and report the results.

Is there a description how to uninstall the current duplicity
version?

Thanks,
Andre

sudo apt-

On Tue, 31 May 2011 14:30:00 +0200
address@hidden wrote:

> Please try 0.6.13. Changelog states
> 
> http://duplicity.nongnu.org/CHANGELOG
> Bugs closed in this release:
> 579958     Assertion error "time not moving forward at appropriate pace"
> 
> Uninstall the distros duplicity first and then
> 
> # install needed packages first
> python python-devel librsync-devel
> # download & extract
> wget http://.../duplicity-0.6.07.tar.gz
> tar xvf duplicity-0.6.07.tar.gz
> cd duplicity-0.6.07/
> # install into PREFIX
> python setup.py install
> 
> except it's not 0.6.07 in your case .. good luck ede/duply.net
> 
> 
> On 31.05.2011 14:26, Andre Schütz wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > we are using duplicity for our incremental backup and since a few days, we 
> > get the following error:
> > 
> > Error:
> > =======================================================
> > 
> > Local and Remote metadata are synchronized, no sync needed.
> > Last inc backup left a partial set, restarting.
> > Last full backup date: Sun Nov  7 01:00:01 2010
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1239, in <module>
> >     with_tempdir(main)
> >   File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1232, in with_tempdir
> >     fn()
> >   File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1214, in main
> >     incremental_backup(sig_chain)
> >   File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 474, in incremental_backup
> >     assert dup_time.curtime != dup_time.prevtime, "time not moving forward 
> > at appropriate pace - system clock issues?"
> > AssertionError: time not moving forward at appropriate pace - system clock 
> > issues?
> > 
> > We use the following configuration:
> > 
> > duplicity: Version 0.6.08b released March 11, 2010
> > Operating System: Ubuntu 8.04.4 hardy
> > 
> > The backup is stored in a Rackspace Cloud Files Container.
> > 
> > We found another solution that described a similar error. The solution was 
> > to delete the 
> > .part files in the /root/.cache/duplicity local folder. We renamed the 
> > .part files but the
> > error was not fixed.
> > 
> > Does anybody have an idea how to solve that problem?
> > 
> > Many thanks,
> > Andre Schütz
> > 
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