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Kenneth Loafman (kenneth-loafman) wrote : Re: [Bug 1895353] Re: Unable to restore backup due to FD_SETSIZE

One more thing: Try using the paramiko+sftp backend instead of the
pexpect+sftp backend.

On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 10:55 AM M <email address hidden> wrote:

> Updated to 0.8.17 - no difference!
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> Title:
> Unable to restore backup due to FD_SETSIZE
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> Status in Duplicity:
> Incomplete
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> Bug description:
> trying to restore a backup shows the following error:
> ValueError: filedescriptor out of range in select()
>
> and then nothing else happens.
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>
> You can see, ~170 instances of gpg were spawned in order to restore the
> backup. It was not "ideal" having incremental backups for 2 month, but
> still it should be possible to recover backups like this
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