Your report got truncated somehow... I need the traceback as well as the error message.
I think this has been fixed in a later version, we're at 0.8.17 now. Please try an upgrade if possible There are multiple options both stable and daily: - Source - https://gitlab.com/duplicity/duplicity - Stable tarball install - https://launchpad.net/duplicity/+download - Stable duplicity PPA - https://code.launchpad.net/~duplicity-team/+archive/ubuntu/duplicity-release-git - Daily duplicity PPA - https://code.launchpad.net/~duplicity-team/+archive/ubuntu/duplicity-develop-git - Stable snap builds - “sudo snap install duplicity —classic" - Latest snap builds - “sudo snap install duplicity —classic —edge" - Stable pip3 builds - “sudo pip3 install duplicity" - Latest pip3 builds - “sudo pip3 install --pre duplicity" Note 1: UNINSTALL duplicity first if it was installed from a different source.. This is due to divergent install locations, especially between repository installs and the other forms. Note 2: Launchpad PPAs contain builds for Bionic 18.04, Eoan 19.10, Focal 20.04, and Hirsute 20.10. Xenial 16.04 works with Snap and Pip installs, but cannot be built under Launchpad PPAs at the moment. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to duplicity in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1908971 Title: TypeError: cannot use a string pattern on a bytes-like object Status in Duplicity: Incomplete Status in duplicity package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: user@host:~$ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 20.10 Release: 20.10 user@host:~$ apt-cache policy duplicity duplicity: Installed: 0.8.11.1612-1 Candidate: 0.8.11.1612-1 Version table: *** 0.8.11.1612-1 500 500 http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu groovy/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status user@host:~$ http_proxy= AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=[omitted-key-id] AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=[omitted-key] PASSPHRASE=[omitted-encryption-password] duplicity --s3-use-new-style --s3-use-ia --s3-use-multiprocessing --no-print-statistics --verbosity 1 --exclude-device-files --exclude-filelist [omitted-exclude-path] --include-filelist [omitted-include-path] --exclude '**' / [omitted-s3-storage-path] TypeError: cannot use a string pattern on a bytes-like object During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): ... ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.10 Package: duplicity 0.8.11.1612-1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.8.0-33.36-lowlatency 5.8.17 Uname: Linux 5.8.0-33-lowlatency x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu50.2 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: skip CurrentDesktop: KDE Date: Tue Dec 22 16:37:45 2020 InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-11-19 (33 days ago) InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 20.10 "Groovy Gorilla" - Release amd64 (20201022) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_NZ:en PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: duplicity UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/duplicity/+bug/1908971/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

