Okay so this explains everything: in my case the fault was not about special characters in files or filenames but of error messages. I executed Deja Dup / Duplicity in a localized environment and got an error. If the *error message* contains special characters the response in the view won't show the real message at all. Instead the error message will cause the encoding exception.
In my case it was: […] DUPLICITY: . File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/duplicity/backends/giobackend.py", line 124, in __copy_file DUPLICITY: . None, self.__copy_progress, None) DUPLICITY: . Error: g-io-error-quark: Fehler beim Senden von Daten: Datenübergabe unterbrochen (broken pipe) (44) DUPLICITY: . […] So it seems that the error could be everything. As long as it contains special characters it will lead to the encoding issue. In my case switching the locale showed the real cause in the GUI. I hope this information helps someone else too. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to deja-dup in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1736164 Title: deja-dup/duplicity backup fails with UnicodeDecodeError Status in Déjà Dup: Triaged Status in Duplicity: New Status in deja-dup package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in deja-dup package in Fedora: Fix Released Bug description: See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1470873 Description of problem: With the update from Fedora 25 to Fedora 26 Workstation, backups with deja-dup/duplicity are failing Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): duplicity 0.7.13.1 deja-dup 34.3 How reproducible: Always (scheduled and manually started backup) Steps to Reproduce: 1. Wait for the scheduled backup to start or start it via the "Backup now" button 2. Some or a large number of files might get backed up, then the backup stops with "Failed with an unknown error" 3. Actual results: Backup fails Expected results: Backup completes as it always did Additional info: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1540, in <module> with_tempdir(main) File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1534, in with_tempdir fn() File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1385, in main do_backup(action) File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1516, in do_backup incremental_backup(sig_chain) File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 668, in incremental_backup globals.backend) File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 453, in write_multivol (tdp, dest_filename, vol_num))) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/duplicity/asyncscheduler.py", line 146, in schedule_task return self.__run_synchronously(fn, params) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/duplicity/asyncscheduler.py", line 172, in __run_synchronously ret = fn(*params) File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 452, in <lambda> vol_num: put(tdp, dest_filename, vol_num), File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 341, in put backend.put(tdp, dest_filename) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/duplicity/backend.py", line 376, in inner_retry % exception_traceback()) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/duplicity/util.py", line 51, in exception_traceback return uexc(msg) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/duplicity/util.py", line 79, in uexc e = unicode(e).encode('utf-8') UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 746: ordinal not in range(128) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/deja-dup/+bug/1736164/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
