Re: [Duplicity-talk] problems trying to use par2

[John Covici]

Thanks all for your response.

OK, that makes sense -- I wish the requirements were in the man page
-- would have saved me a lot of fooling around.

there is also a package libpar2 -- do I need this as well?

On Mon, 08 May 2017 06:22:14 -0400,
edgar.soldin--- via Duplicity-talk wrote:
> 
> John,
> 
> A.
> wrt. to the first issue.. i am pretty sure that you cannot start using par2 
> backend just within a chain. it will try to download the par2 files for the 
> existing chain, which obviously were never created, so a missing resource 
> exception sounds only natural.
> solution: start a new chain by creating a new full.
> 
> B.
> > Attempt 2 failed. ExceptionPexpect: The command was not found or was
> > not executable: par2.
> make sure that you have par2 installed. it is a command line binary eg. like 
> gpg. them make sure it is in PATH environment and can be executed by running 
> 'par2' on the command line.
> 
> ..ede/duply.net
> 
> 
> On 08.05.2017 11:05, John Covici via Duplicity-talk wrote:
> > Well, I now know that I am using pexpect 4.2.1, and so I tried it on a
> > full backup to see if it would work any better.  It kept saying things
> > like
> > Making directory /tmp/duplicity-29_4Gr-tempdir/duplicity_temp.7
> > Create Par2 recovery files
> > Attempt 2 failed. ExceptionPexpect: The command was not found or was
> > not executable: par2.
> > 
> > I do have version 4.2.1 of pexpect installed.  Am I doing something
> > wrong or is par2 just broken?
> > 
> > On Sun, 07 May 2017 04:43:17 -0400,
> > Bach, Matthias wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi John,
> >>
> >> • Which version of Duplicity are you using?
> >> • Has it worked without the par2 backend?
> >> • Which version of the azure-storage package are you using?
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> >>     Hi.  I am using asure as my backup and I decided to try using par2 to
> >>     gain some redundancy.  I just started to use it on an incremental
> >>     backup, and if it works use it on the next full one.
> >>     
> >>     Now two things happened.  It wanted a module called pexpect which was
> >>     not there, but I found and installed the module.
> >>     
> >>     Then I got the following instead of a backup.
> >>     
> >>     Added incremental Backupset (start_time: Thu May  4 03:01:00 2017 /
> >>     end_time: Fri May  5 03:01:08 2017)
> >>     Last full backup date: Sat Oct 15 03:49:55 2016
> >>     Making directory /tmp/duplicity-vE26jR-tempdir/duplicity_temp.1
> >>     Deleting tree /tmp/duplicity-vE26jR-tempdir/duplicity_temp.1
> >>     Deleting
> >>     
> >> /tmp/duplicity-vE26jR-tempdir/duplicity_temp.1/duplicity-inc.20170504T070100Z.to.20170505T070108Z.manifest.gpg.par2
> >>     Deleting /tmp/duplicity-vE26jR-tempdir/duplicity_temp.1
> >>     Giving up after 1 attempts. AzureMissingResourceHttpError: The
> >>     specified blob does not exist.
> >>     
> >>     Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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