Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup 1.1.2 testing - problems

[Kevin Horton]

On 19 Nov 2005, at 24:21, Ben Escoto wrote:

> > > > > > Kevin Horton <address@hidden>
> > > > > > wrote the following on Tue, 15 Nov 2005 20:39:49 -0500
>
> Hmm, I don't really know what could be the problem.  My one thought is
> that there might be a problem with python's gzip on your system.  I've
> written a little gzip script on your system, you can download it at:
>
> https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/download.php? 
> item_id=15006&item_file_id=3111
>
> Once saved you can:
>
> chmod 755 gzip-python
> ./gzip-python <file>
>
> and it will work a bit like gzip, writing a compressed version of
> <file> to <file>.gz.  So I'd be interested to see if you can compress
> files (including large files, like 4GB+ files) that decompress to the
> correct original files.

I did a whole bunch of testing using the above gzip-python script.   
There is indeed a problem somewhere with large files.  I got a high  
failure rate with large (5.7 GB) files using fink's python 2.4.2 and  
also with Apple's stock python 2.3.5.  I will take this up in another  
forum.

I'm giving up on rdiff-backup for now, as it seems that there are  
python issues on OS X that make it unreliable for me.  I am prepared  
to help out with testing in my spare time, and I hope to be using  
rdiff-backup again someday.


Kevin Horton
Ottawa, Canada