Hello all, same issue here with Slovak environment and user with sudo rights. I found workaround by changing storage location to folder, which is located in home directory and thus user has direct access to it.
It looks like access rights issues. Andrej -- 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/1770929 Title: backup fails on ubuntu 18.4 Status in Duplicity: In Progress Status in duplicity package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: backup worked under Ubuntu 17.10 It also worked on Ubuntu 18.4 before last week's update (run on Friday 11.5) my drive is encrypted this is the error message in the error frame Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1555, in <module> with_tempdir(main) File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1541, in with_tempdir fn() File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1393, in main do_backup(action) File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1523, in do_backup incremental_backup(sig_chain) File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 668, in incremental_backup globals.backend) File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 454, in write_multivol (tdp, dest_filename, vol_num))) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/asyncscheduler.py", line 146, in schedule_task return self.__run_synchronously(fn, params) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/asyncscheduler.py", line 172, in __run_synchronously ret = fn(*params) File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 453, in <lambda> vol_num: put(tdp, dest_filename, vol_num), File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 342, in put backend.put(tdp, dest_filename) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/backend.py", line 395, in inner_retry % (n, e.__class__.__name__, util.uexc(e))) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/util.py", line 79, in uexc return ufn(unicode(e).encode('utf-8')) UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 37: ordinal not in range(128) ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: duplicity 0.7.17-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-20.21-generic 4.15.17 Uname: Linux 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Sun May 13 09:55:00 2018 InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-05-01 (11 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426) SourcePackage: duplicity UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/duplicity/+bug/1770929/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
