Comments on: Bash Script: Incremental Encrypted Backups with Duplicity (Amazon S3)

By: bmilesp

bmilesp — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:11:30 +0000

oh, forgot to mention the error message. say i have a file named “fileWith ASpace.png”

i will get an error msg like:

du: cannot access `/root/folder/path/fileWith’: no such file or directory
du: cannot access `ASpace.png’: No such file or directory

it seems to treat the space as a delimiter.

thanks again.

By: bmilesp

bmilesp — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:02:35 +0000

Hello,

Great Script, i’ve just used it on Ubuntu 11.10 and everything works fine except that filenames containing spaces are split at the space and treated as separate files!

Any idea how to fix this?

Thank you very much, again!

By: Stratos

Stratos — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:55:59 +0000

Thank you very much for your script. Is it possible to restore to a specific date?

Great job!
S

By: Mark Ruys

Mark Ruys — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 15:41:44 +0000

If you want to let the script send mail, and you use SELinux, you need to rewrite:

${MAIL} -s “”"${EMAIL_SUBJECT}”"” $EMAIL_FROM ${EMAIL_TO} < ${LOGFILE}

to:

cat ${LOGFILE} | ${MAIL} -s """${EMAIL_SUBJECT}""" $EMAIL_FROM ${EMAIL_TO}

By: Damon

Damon — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 10:04:47 +0000

Hi – am not sure what that could be, actually. Did you try to “echo” the script’s output to see if the issue is with the command being generated or with s3tools ?

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Sat, 05 Nov 2011 21:43:04 +0000

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By: Steve Jenkins

Steve Jenkins — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 17:33:02 +0000

Sorry – and when I say “this same error” I’m referring only to this error:

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
An unexpected error has occurred.
Please report the following lines to:
s3tools-bugs@lists.sourceforge.net
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Problem: AttributeError: ‘S3Error’ object has no attribute ‘Code’
S3cmd: 1.0.0-rc1

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/bin/s3cmd”, line 1899, in
main()
File “/usr/bin/s3cmd”, line 1843, in main
cmd_func(args)
File “/usr/bin/s3cmd”, line 79, in cmd_du
subcmd_bucket_usage(s3, uri)
File “/usr/bin/s3cmd”, line 105, in subcmd_bucket_usage
if S3.codes.has_key(e.Code):
AttributeError: ‘S3Error’ object has no attribute ‘Code’

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
An unexpected error has occurred.
Please report the above lines to:
s3tools-bugs@lists.sourceforge.net
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Steve Jenkins

Steve Jenkins — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 17:31:09 +0000

I’m getting this same error, and I do have python-boto installed:

# rpm -q python-boto
python-boto-1.9b-2.fc12.noarch

The backups seem to work fine, except for this error. Any ideas how to fix?

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:29:01 +0000

Hi Dave

I have similar needs, and I decided to just go with s3sync for backing up my photos. This won’t store then encrypted in s3, but they will be encrypted to/from s3, and you can make the bucket be private. This will allow anyone except rogue Amazon employees from snooping through your stuff (or intruders that bypass Amazon’s protections). So, for really sensitive stuff (documents, personal information, etc) I use duplicity, and make a full backup every 2 weeks. For less sensitive stuff, like photos, I use s3sync to maintain the mirror incrementally.

I don’t know if duplicity would work well if you kept doing incremental backups infinitely. I suspect that it wouldn’t, especially when it came time to restore from backup, since it would need to play back through all of the incremental backup files.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 09:05:47 +0000

I was thinking of using this to backup media from my server (pictures and music) which is about 100Gb. I want to just do a single full backup and only incremental backups from then on. Do you think it would be reliable enough to do this?