Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Error: Too many open files

[Andrew K. Bressen]

Jérémy JUST <address@hidden> writes:
>   I've monitored opened files during rdiff-backup run, with lsof.
> These are the counts:         (interval = 5 seconds)
>  51  52  53  52  92  83  117  186  364  522  717  876  1040  0  0  0  0
>                                                            ^
>                                                          crash
>
>   Just before the crash, I can see about one thousand files opened
> on the backup partition, in various directories:
[...]
>   I'm using rdiff-backup 0.13.4 with Python 2.3.
>   My ulimit for opened files is set at 1024.
>
>
>   Is that a known problem of the development version? 

I guess it is as of now... 

>... Should I downgrade to 0.12.7? (but it seems that backup formats are 
>incompatible)

If it were me, I'd raise the ulimit. 
0.12.7 is indeed incompatible, and kind of old besides, 
and might have the same problem anyway.