Déjà Dup

Cant backup due to an error AttributeError: BackupChain instance has no attribute 'archive_dir'

Asked by Matthias R. Mühler

After starting Deja dup I get the following error garbish that I absolutely don´t understand. What can I do?

message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1239, in <module>
    with_tempdir(main)
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1232, in with_tempdir
    fn()
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1137, in main
    globals.archive_dir).set_values()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/duplicity/collections.py", line 682, in set_values
    backup_chains = self.get_sorted_chains(backup_chains)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/duplicity/collections.py", line 920, in get_sorted_chains
    assert chain_list[1].archive_dir # other is local
AttributeError: BackupChain instance has no attribute 'archive_dir'

Thanks in advance.

Matthias

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Best Michael Terry (mterry) said : 		#1

Looks like you hit https://bugs.launchpad.net/duplicity/+bug/401153

My recommendation is to type the following into a Terminal and try again:
rm -rf ~/.cache/deja-dup

Let me know whether that works!

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Matthias R. Mühler (matthias-muehler) said : 		#2

It works fine. Thanks for your fast help. Matthias

2010/12/8 Michael Terry <email address hidden>:
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> Michael Terry proposed the following answer:
> Looks like you hit https://bugs.launchpad.net/duplicity/+bug/401153
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> My recommendation is to type the following into a Terminal and try again:
> rm -rf ~/.cache/deja-dup
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> Let me know whether that works!
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Matthias R. Mühler (matthias-muehler) said : 		#3

Thanks Michael Terry, that solved my question.