My short-term workaround to recover old backup files with umlauts after UnicodeDecodeError:
export LANG=en_US.utf8 export LANGUAGE= export LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8" export LC_NUMERIC="en_US.utf8" export LC_TIME="en_US.utf8" export LC_COLLATE="en_US.utf8" export LC_MONETARY="en_US.utf8" export LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8" export LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 export LC_NAME="en_US.utf8" export LC_ADDRESS="en_US.utf8" export LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.utf8" export LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.utf8" export LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.utf8" export LC_ALL= deja-dup --restore folderWithUmlauts -- 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/1377873 Title: deja-dup fails to restore missing files, that contain "german umlaut" (ä,ö,ü,Ä,Ö,Ü). Status in deja-dup package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I tried to restore some "missing files" (translated from german) deleted while deja-dup was creating a new backup. This attempt failed with the following Stacktrace: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1494, in <module> with_tempdir(main) File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1488, in with_tempdir fn() File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1337, in main do_backup(action) File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 1422, in do_backup restore(col_stats) File "/usr/bin/duplicity", line 700, in restore % (globals.restore_dir,), UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe4 in position 45: ordinal not in range(128) ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: deja-dup 30.0-0ubuntu4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-36.63-generic 3.13.11.6 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-36-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.5 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Mon Oct 6 12:01:55 2014 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-09-28 (7 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417) SourcePackage: deja-dup UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/deja-dup/+bug/1377873/+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
