how to store backup files on ubuntu one?

Hi,

I am trying to use Déjà Dup to take a weekly Backup from my e-mail folder and store it on my Ubuntu One folder.

Déjà Dup creates multiple 5Mb sized encrypted files in the format of:

duplicity-full.2009-10-09T15:37:18+02:00.vol1.difftar.gpg

However, in U1 it turns out the uploaded files are called

duplicity-full.2009-10-09T13:11:27+02:00.vol1.difftar.gpg.u1conflict

The file sizes are correct and no errors were reported but with this new extension, these files are useless for a Restore...

What went wrong here?

RavanH said: Hi,

I am trying to use Déjà Dup to take a weekly Backup from my e-mail folder and store it on my Ubuntu One folder.

Déjà Dup creates multiple 5Mb sized encrypted files in the format of:

duplicity-full.2009-10-09T15:37:18+02:00.vol1.difftar.gpg

duplicity-full.2009-10-09T13:11:27+02:00.vol1.difftar.gpg.u1conflict

The file sizes are correct and no errors were reported but with this new extension, these files are useless for a Restore...

What went wrong here?

It's hard to say for sure what went wrong without more information. We'd like to help figure it out! If you can tright-click on the Ubuntu One Client and select "Report a Problem" this will start filing a bug report with some log information. We'll also likely need you to attach your ~/.cache/ubuntuone/log/syncdaemon.log file to the bug. Note that attaching syncdaemon.log will show filenames you are attempting to sync with Ubuntu One. If you do not want this to be public, please mark the bug as private and this bug report will only be available to you and the Ubuntu One team.

Thank you,

Joshua

Hi Joshua,

Thanks for helping figure this out. I hesitate to file it as a bug immediately because I am not sure how to describe or what went wrong and where exactly... So if you can tell more from the syncdeamon.log file, here is a snippet regarding the first of the backup volume files. All other files have similar log entries.

Should I go ahead and make a report about it?

...

2009-10-23 18:21:09,309 - ubuntuone.SyncDaemon.Main - NOTE - ---- MARK (state: IDLE; queues: metadata: 0; content: 0; hash: 0, fsm-cache: hit=18 miss=5) ---- 2009-10-23 18:22:20,618 - ubuntuone.SyncDaemon.sync - INFO - T:NONE:F ffde4a65-2933-48e7-a426-f05c48a03321 [root:ffde4a65-2933-48e7-a426-f05c48a03321] ''Ubuntu One/duplicity-full.2009-10-23T18:22:11+02:00.vol1.difftar.gpg'' | Called new_local_file (In: F:NA:NA) 2009-10-23 18:22:20,656 - ubuntuone.SyncDaemon.sync - INFO - T:NONE:F ffde4a65-2933-48e7-a426-f05c48a03321 [root:ffde4a65-2933-48e7-a426-f05c48a03321] ''Ubuntu One/duplicity-full.2009-10-23T18:22:11+02:00.vol1.difftar.gpg'' | Called calculate_hash (In: T:NONE:F) 2009-10-23 18:22:20,805 - ubuntuone.SyncDaemon.sync - INFO - T:LOCAL:F ffde4a65-2933-48e7-a426-f05c48a03321 [root:ffde4a65-2933-48e7-a426-f05c48a03321] ''Ubuntu One/duplicity-full.2009-10-23T18:22:11+02:00.vol1.difftar.gpg'' | Called put_file (In: T:NONE:F) 2009-10-23 18:22:21,047 - ubuntuone.SyncDaemon.ActionQueue - WARNING - MakeFile share:'' node:'ffde4a65-2933-48e7-a426-f05c48a03321' MakeFile(marker="'ffde4a65-2933-48e7-a426-f05c48a03321'", parent_id="'e9985643-5875-4961-ac5a-a2139eb70c62'", share_id="''", name="u'duplicity-full.2009-10-23T18:22:11+02:00.vol1.difftar.gpg'") failure INVALID_FILENAME 2009-10-23 18:22:21,052 - ubuntuone.SyncDaemon.sync - INFO - -:-:- ffde4a65-2933-48e7-a426-f05c48a03321 [-:-] ''-'' | Called file_not_created_remove (In: T:LOCAL:F) 2009-10-23 18:22:21,056 - ubuntuone.SyncDaemon.ActionQueue - WARNING - Upload share:'' node:'ffde4a65-2933-48e7-a426-f05c48a03321' Upload(share_id="''", hash="'sha1:f0bef99ebda24085deb001afaa51fc56b47a5595'", fileobj_factory='<bound method FSKey.open_file of <ubuntuone.syncdaemon.sync.FSKey object at 0x2b78230>>', node_id="'ffde4a65-2933-48e7-a426-f05c48a03321'", crc32='2596473747L', previous_hash="''", size='5212248') unable to build fileobj (user deleted the file, maybe?) so cancelling the upload. 2009-10-23 18:22:21,062 - ubuntuone.SyncDaemon.ActionQueue - WARNING - Upload share:'' node:'ffde4a65-2933-48e7-a426-f05c48a03321' Upload(share_id="''", hash="'sha1:f0bef99ebda24085deb001afaa51fc56b47a5595'", fileobj_factory='<bound method FSKey.open_file of <ubuntuone.syncdaemon.sync.FSKey object at 0x2b78230>>', node_id="'ffde4a65-2933-48e7-a426-f05c48a03321'", crc32='2596473747L', previous_hash="''", size='5212248') failure CANCELLED 2009-10-23 18:22:21,063 - ubuntuone.SyncDaemon.sync - INFO - -:-:- - [:ffde4a65-2933-48e7-a426-f05c48a03321] ''-'' | Called nothing (In: F:NA:NA) ...

ahhhh... think i located the problem. if a filename has a colon (:) in it, the problem (.u1conflict) will occur.

but when i upload a file *without* a colon in the name, and then rename it to something *with* a colon, then there will be no problem... funny ;)

anyway, now i know what to report as bug!

Deja Dup in Karmic no longer uses colons.