Duplicity and network folders?

[theindustry]

Hi everybody,

I just installed Duplicity on Ubuntu and got everything working. However, when I try to backup a network samba-connected windows drive, The following occurs:

Backup source directory /smb:/windowscomputer/harddrive/folder does not exist.

Here's how it's formatted in my backup.sh script:

duplicity --full-if-older-than 14D --encrypt-key=XXXXXXX --sign-key=XXXXXXX smb://windowscomputer/harddrive/folder s3+http://myS3BUCKET

What can I do to make this work? I'm kinda stuck right now. Thanks!

[robsoles]

Sounds like you need to mount it using /etc/fstab - have a look at this post and be aware that the user 'root' can be replaced with the username you usually use to access this share and you will have to put your password in plaintext into the file as well.

Some programs won't play with samba if the share isn't mounted - this is gotten around in gnome by use of a special folder ~/.gvfs but that only has a mounted reference to the share after the user has used nautilus to mount it.

You should probably have a squiz at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=283131 if you will use /etc/fstab to get your job done.

[theindustry]

Sounds like you need to mount it using /etc/fstab - have a look at this post and be aware that the user 'root' can be replaced with the username you usually use to access this share and you will have to put your password in plaintext into the file as well.

Some programs won't play with samba if the share isn't mounted - this is gotten around in gnome by use of a special folder ~/.gvfs but that only has a mounted reference to the share after the user has used nautilus to mount it.

You should probably have a squiz at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=283131 if you will use /etc/fstab to get your job done.

Hi! That made the trick Thanks a lot!