Duplicity

Cygwin: TypeError: basis_file must be a (true) file, while restoring inremental backup

Bug #670891 reported by ChieftainY2k on 2010-11-04

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Duplicity	Fix Released	Medium	Unassigned	Duplicity 0.6.12

Bug Description

I am unable to restore files from incremental backup, while restoring files from FULL backup seems to be ok.

The error is "TypeError: basis_file must be a (true) file"

This is a major problem for me , since I use duplicity on a daily basis to back up my windows documents and files.

Backup storage is local drive.

All backed up files are from local drive.

See attachment for details.

Environment:
Windowx XP SP3 + latest cygwin.

Error summary:

bash-3.2$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 cy2k 1.7.7(0.230/5/3) 2010-08-31 09:58 i686 Cygwin

bash-3.2$ duplicity --version
duplicity 0.6.10

bash-3.2$ python --version
Python 2.6.5

Error Stack Trace:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1245, in <module>
    with_tempdir(main)
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1238, in with_tempdir
    fn()
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1192, in main
    restore(col_stats)
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 539, in restore
    restore_get_patched_rop_iter(col_stats)):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/duplicity/patchdir.py", line 520, in Write_ROPaths
    for ropath in rop_iter:
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/duplicity/patchdir.py", line 493, in integrate_patch_iters
    final_ropath = patch_seq2ropath( normalize_ps( patch_seq ) )
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/duplicity/patchdir.py", line 478, in patch_seq2ropath
    delta_ropath.open( "rb" ) )
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/duplicity/librsync.py", line 167, in __init__
    raise TypeError("basis_file must be a (true) file")
TypeError: basis_file must be a (true) file

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ChieftainY2k (chieftainy2k) wrote on 2010-11-04:

Duplicity output and log Edit (3.2 KiB, text/plain)

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Paolo Costa (paolinux) wrote on 2011-02-09:

duplicity_tempfiles.patch Edit (746 bytes, text/plain)

Hi there,

I bumped into the same problem while running duplicity 0.6.11 (patched as of http://jager.no/projects/windows/duplicity-on-windows) using cygwin 1.7.7 and python 2.6.5 on Windows 7.

The problem is that, as explained in the Python documentation (http://docs.python.org/library/tempfile.html), tempfile.TemporaryFile returns a *file-like* object, not a file object. Under Linux, it effectively returns a file object but under windows it does not. Hence, the type of the object returned is *not* a types.FileType, causing the exception to be raised.

Further references:

http://bytes.com/topic/python/answers/36024-bug-windows-tempfile-py
http://<email address hidden>/msg00675.html

I found a workaround (patch attached) by replacing in src/patchdir.py "tempfile.TemporaryFile()" with "os.tmpfile()", which, instead, returns a file object (http://docs.python.org/library/os.html).

Hope it helps,

Paolo

Kenneth Loafman (kenneth-loafman) on 2011-03-06