Comment 42 for bug 662442

Hi,

I am not sure if this is related, but I am certainly hoping someone can assist

I'm struggling to restore backups from an older installation of Ubuntu to a new installation on Ubuntu 16.04. I get the following error when trying to restore:

Failed with an unknown error Followed by:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1532, in <module>
    with_tempdir(main)
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1526, in with_tempdir
    fn()
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1380, in main
    do_backup(action)
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1461, in do_backup
    list_current(col_stats)
  File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 698, in list_current
    for path in path_iter:
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/diffdir.py", line 354, in combine_path_iters
    refresh_triple_list(triple_list)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/diffdir.py", line 341, in refresh_triple_list
    new_triple = get_triple(old_triple[1])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/diffdir.py", line 327, in get_triple
    path = path_iter_list[iter_index].next()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/diffdir.py", line 239, in sigtar2path_iter
    for tarinfo in tf:
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/tarfile.py", line 2508, in next
    tarinfo = self.tarfile.next()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/tarfile.py", line 2350, in next
    raise ReadError("unexpected end of data")
ReadError: unexpected end of data

The backup completed successfully but I cannot get it to restore.

Thanks in advance!