Amazon S3 Backup

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Just messing around with Amazon S3 backup but everytime i imput my information it says OK then comes up with this message.

Something is wrong with the backup: ERROR 23 BackendException
. BackendException: Could not initialize backend: No module named boto

This is a new box setup so i have not changed anything

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try this command:
pip install boto

What’s the output you see?

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Requirement already satisfied: boto in /usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages

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duplicity is python 2.7, not python 3, so you’ll need boto installed for python 2.7

The setup should have done that for you.

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Since phython is already installed how do i install 2.7?

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I had this issue…

This worked for me.

“apt-get install python-boto”

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Ditto. Had the exact same issue on a clean install of 0.21c. Installing python-boto fixed it.

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I had the same issues as above. I also found that deleting or renaming your S3 bucket will trigger the same error message.

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After much digging around I finally found the issue, as I am using Frankfurt for my S3 backup.
The problem is that when installing Mailinabox on a new box the BOTO package is correctly installed for Python 3, but not for Python 2 that Duplicity uses.
Installing it from the repository does not solve the problem for me as an old version of BOTO is provided, so to fix the problem I proceeded in the following way:
As Root:

apt-get purge python-boto

this will remove the ubuntu-provided old boto if you tried the solution from damowhite232

git clone git://github.com/boto/boto.git
cd boto
python setup.py install

This will install the last boto release in Python 2.7 allowing to backup and restore from S3 Frankfurt

EDIT: Thanks to nstanke on Github, there’s a cleaner solution / workaround:

sudo pip2 install --upgrade boto

so there’s no need to pull boto from git