[rdiff-backup-users] Using rdiff-backup with Amazon's S3 service

[Joe Klemmer]

	I am trying to find a good way to mirror/backup my local system(s) 
to Amazons S3 service.  Basically they give you a boatload of storage for 
pennies that you can mount using webdav and other such things.  Right now 
I am using jungledisk and fuse-wdfs to mount the thing.  I tried using 
rdiff-backup in a basic simple setup like so -

$ rdiff-backup --force /home/klemmerj /mnt/dav/klemmerj

(I had to use --force because I had already copied some directories over)

	I keep bombing off with python errors all over the place.  I 
barily know how to spell python so none of it makes any sense to me.  Can 
anyone point me towards a way to get rdiff-backup working?  Or, if it 
doesn't support what I'm trying to do with it, let me know so I can try 
and find another solution.

Here's the output -

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Exception '[Errno 38] Function not implemented' raised of class 
'exceptions.OSError':
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/robust.py", line 32, 
in check_common_error
    try: return function(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 98, 
in copy
    elif rpin.issym(): rpout.symlink(rpin.readlink())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 815, 
in symlink
    self.conn.os.symlink(linktext, self.path)

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/rdiff-backup", line 23, in ?
    rdiff_backup.Main.Main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 285, 
in Main
    take_action(rps)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 255, 
in take_action
    elif action == "backup": Backup(rps[0], rps[1])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 308, 
in Backup
    backup.Mirror(rpin, rpout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line 38, 
in Mirror
    DestS.patch(dest_rpath, source_diffiter)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line 
218, in patch
    ITR(diff.index, diff)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rorpiter.py", line 
285, in __call__
    last_branch.fast_process(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line 
490, in fast_process
    if self.patch_to_temp(rp, diff_rorp, tf):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line 
507, in patch_to_temp
    self.write_special(diff_rorp, new)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/backup.py", line 
539, in write_special
    if robust.check_common_error(eh, rpath.copy, (diff_rorp, new)) == 0:
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/robust.py", line 32, 
in check_common_error
    try: return function(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 98, 
in copy
    elif rpin.issym(): rpout.symlink(rpin.readlink())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 815, 
in symlink
    self.conn.os.symlink(linktext, self.path)
OSError: [Errno 38] Function not implemented
Exception exceptions.TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable" in 
<bound method GzipFile.__del__ of <gzip open file 
'/mnt/dav/klemmerj/rdiff-backup-data/file_statistics.2006-11-16;08422:55:47-05:00.data.gz', 
mode 'wb' at 0xb7c7c068 -0x483dea34>> ignored
Exception exceptions.TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable" in 
<bound method GzipFile.__del__ of <gzip open file 
'/mnt/dav/klemmerj/rdiff-backup-data/error_log.2006-11-16;08422:55:47-05:00.data.gz', 
mode 'wb' at 0xb7c7c020 -0x483de774>> ignored
Exception exceptions.TypeError: "'NoneType' object is not callable" in 
<bound method GzipFile.__del__ of <gzip open file 
'/mnt/dav/klemmerj/rdiff-backup-data/mirror_metadata.2006-11-16;08422:55:47-05:00.snapshot.gz', 
mode 'wb' at 0xb7c190b0 -0x483de814>> ignored

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