pypolicyd-spf

backup fails by unknown error

Asked by Bram van Leeuwen

I tried to backup with déjà dup the home directory to an external usb-disk on a partiton formatted with ext4.
I have a dual boot machine with Ubuntu 18-04lts and Windows-10 and the external disk is a 2TB Seagate disk.

the last line I get is:
 UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 37: ordinal not in range(128)

which does not inform me at all.

Should I format the partition to a different format?

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Best Scott Kitterman (kitterman) said : 		#1

The question has nothing to do with pypolicyd-spf, so I don't know why you asked it here.

Generically, the error is typical of trying to run code written for python2 under python3.

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Bram van Leeuwen (bramdod) said : 		#2

Thanks for your answer; I came in this section because of the last line I copied and then I came in this section. And in the right corner was the invitation: "ask a question", and so I did.

Can you point me to the right section for my question?

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Bram van Leeuwen (bramdod) said : 		#3

I think I found the right section: Ubuntu, so thanks again, Bram

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Bram van Leeuwen (bramdod) said : 		#4

Thanks Scott Kitterman, that solved my question.